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A 27-year-old man of Punjabi origin has been arrested and a case registered against him after the firing incident in Surrey, Canada. Police say it is linked to ongoing extortion-related violence in the area.The accused was identified as Jaskaran Saroye and was taken into custody by the Surrey Police Service Extortion Response Team following the execution of a search warrant at a residential property in the city.According to police, the incident occurred shortly before 3 a.m. on April 13 near 94A Avenue and 127 Street, when shots were fired into an occupied home. The house was damaged, but no one was injured.In a statement, Surrey Police said investigators were able to identify a suspect vehicle, which led to further inquiries and ultimately the issuance of a court-approved warrant. The arrest was made with the assistance of the Lower Mainland District Emergency Response Team and other SPS units.Saroye has been accused of recklessly dumping the gun at a location without knowing whether anyone was present inside. He remains in custody and is scheduled for a bail hearing.Chief Constable Norm Lipinski of Surrey Police described the incident as serious and warned of the dangers posed by such attacks.Lipinski described the shootings as an “extremely serious crime” and said shootings into occupied homes pose a significant threat to public safety.Police have also publicly released Saroye’s photograph and said it could help identify others linked to the extortion network operating in the area. According to Indian Panorama, Surrey has seen an increase in extortion-related violence in recent years, with members of the South Asian community, particularly those of Indian origin, often targeted.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old man of Punjabi origin has been arrested and a case registered against him after the firing incident in Surrey, Canada. Police say it is linked to ongoing extortion-related violence in the area.The accused was identified as Jaskaran Saroye and was taken into custody by the Surrey Police Service Extortion Response Team following the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[159,512,500,22914,3591,29852,6005,29853,405,298],"class_list":{"0":"post-129441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-arrested","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-case","11":"tag-extortion","12":"tag-indianorigin","13":"tag-jaskaran","14":"tag-related","15":"tag-saroye","16":"tag-shooting","17":"tag-violence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129443,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129441\/revisions\/129443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}