Calgary police announce multiple arrests after concluding several operations
Posted Jan 23, 2015 9:22 am.
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The Calgary Police Service Guns and Gangs Unit has announced it’s concluded several recent operations, arresting suspects and seizing weapons and drugs.
The first case goes all the way back to a shooting outside a northeast bar in October.
Police say just after 11 p.m., on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, several people were thrown out of the bar in the 13400 block of 52 Street N.E., following an altercation.
The two groups continued arguing outside when one of the men pulled out a handgun and fired several shots towards the rival group and the bar.
One man was shot in the leg, while several others inside the bar were sent diving for cover as bullets entered the business.
One person was injured by flying glass.
26-year-old Ramin Dadkhuda of Calgary was arrested at the end of October and charged with multiple weapons offences, as well as two counts of aggravated assault.
In the second, and unrelated case which also happened in October, officers charged a man with attempted murder following a shooting incident in Pineridge.
On Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, police say two groups of men arranged to meet on a street in the 6700 block of 26 Avenue N.E. at around 7:30 p.m.
When the groups arrived at the arranged meeting place, their two cars pulled up beside each other, when someone inside of the cars fired shots into the other.
The driver of the one vehicle was shot in the face and the offenders took off.
Three days later 22-year-old Amaninder Singh turned himself in to police and was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, five counts of failing to comply, and multiple firearms offences.
In a more recent case, detectives have charged two men in connection with a shooting at a northeast home.
At about 11:30 p.m., on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015, police were called to a drive-by shooting in the 700 block of Rundleside Drive N.E.
Several people were inside the home at the time of the shooting but no one was injured.
20-year-old Abdullah Amer and 28-year-old Azad Ahmed Haji were arrested a couple days later and charged with multiple firearms and drug offences.
Police also found cocaine, oxycodone, cash and a loaded handgun.
None of these incidents was random, and all are believed to be targeted.
