{"id":82850,"date":"2026-06-10T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/82850\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:36:15","slug":"trio-pleads-guilty-sentenced-in-extortion-related-surrey-shooting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/82850\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio pleads guilty, sentenced in extortion-related Surrey shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three men have pleaded guilty in what police say are among British Columbia’s first extortion-related convictions.<\/p>\n

The charges against them relate to a shooting and fire outside a home in Surrey’s Crescent Beach neighbourhood on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

The trio, all Indian nationals, were arrested in a rideshare vehicle<\/a> as they attempted to flee the scene.<\/p>\n

Taranveer Singh pleaded guilty to reckless discharge of a firearm and was sentenced to five years in prison, Surrey police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

After credit for time served, he’ll serve nearly 4.5 more years behind bars.<\/p>\n

Dayajeet Billing and Harjot Singh both pleaded guilty to throwing an explosive substance, and were sentenced to just over two years each in prison.<\/p>\n

After credit for time served, Billings will spend another 20 months behind bars, while Harjot Singh will serve 18 more months, followed by two years of probation each.<\/p>\n

“This has been a very quick turnaround, so guilty pleas are a good thing,” Surrey Police Service Staff Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said.<\/p>\n

“It provides closure in the immediacy and the sentences should hopefully send a message.”<\/p>\n

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Harjot Singh, left, Taranveer Singh and Dayajeet Billing have been sentenced in relation to what police say they believe was an extortion-related attack in Surrey on Feb. 1. (Surrey Police Service)<\/p>\n

Houghton said all three will serve their sentences in Canada, and that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) will decide what happens to them afterward.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the CBSA said it is legally obligated to remove foreign nationals found to be inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act<\/a>, with a priority on cases involving criminality and organized crime.<\/p>\n

“Criminal matters take precedence over immigration matters, meaning that any foreign nationals convicted of crimes in Canada cannot be removed until they have served their sentence,” the statement reads.<\/p>\n

“However, the CBSA takes steps to ensure their removal order can be enforced as soon as possible afterward, once all legal avenues of recourse that can stay a removal have been exhausted.”<\/p>\n

He added that while none of the men were charged with extortion, police believe the attack was extortion related.<\/p>\n

He said the men were arrested with the help of a program called Project Assurance that has police “proactively patrol” residential and business areas targeted by extortion.<\/p>\n

“I think these are the first convictions and sentencing in any of our [extortion] files,” Houghton said.<\/p>\n

“And in fact, they may actually be some of the first in British Columbia. So hopefully that’s the start of a trend where we see more guilty pleas and more sentences.”<\/p>\n

As of June 8, Surrey police had recorded 122 reported extortions, 19 related shots-fired calls and two arsons.<\/p>\n

Houghton said police responded to 10 shootings in January alone, but that the number of incidents have dropped significantly in recent months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men have pleaded guilty in what police say are among British Columbia’s first extortion-related convictions. The charges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1518,32463,15684,32462,32436,14588,97,2533,9177,32438],"class_list":["post-82850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-canada-border-services-agency","tag-dayajeet-billing","tag-extortion","tag-guilty-pleas","tag-harjot-singh","tag-lindsey-houghton","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-police","tag-surrey-police-service","tag-taranveer-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}