“Gangster” Randeep Singh Match, who has a long history of crime in the Abbotsford area, has been arrested in the murder of Tarsem ‘Shane’ Singh Dhaliwal of Surrey, who went missing on January 19 in Surrey. Police say that the victim and the accused were known to each other and this was a targeted attack.” The LINK reported on May 18, 2013 that a man named Randeep Singh Match, who was serving five and a half years in prison, had hoped a BC Supreme Court judge would agree to try him separately from his co-accused, Manindervir Singh Virk. In 2009, Match and Virk were caught carrying duffel bags stuffed with $1.2 million worth of cocaine bricks.
By R. Paul Dhillon
SURREY – Abbotsford police have arrested an Indo-Canadian man in the murder of Tarsem ‘Shane’ Singh Dhaliwal of Surrey, who went missing on January 19.
“As a result of the dedication and commitment displayed by the IHIT investigators, 33 year old Randeep Singh Match has been arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder,” said IHIT Staff Sergeant Jennifer Pound.
Match was arrested in Abbotsford on December 10, 2014 without incident.
Thirty-five-year-old Dhaliwal was reported missing by his family to the Surrey RCMP.
Dhaliwal’s body was located two days later on January 21 in a vehicle in the 18900 block of 92 Avenue in Surrey.
Evidence quickly led investigators to believe that Dhaliwal met with foul play and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was deployed and assumed conduct.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been working diligently on the Dhaliwal’s murder since his body was located in a vehicle.
Polic said while the motive cannot be discussed as this matter is before the Courts “we can say that the victim and the accused were known to each other and this was a targeted attack.”
The man arrested – Randeep Singh Match – has a long history of crime.
The LINK reported on May 18, 2013 that a man named Randeep Singh Match, who’s serving five and a half years in prison, had hoped a BC Supreme Court judge would agree to try him separately from his co-accused, Manindervir Singh Virk.
In 2009, Match and Virk were caught carrying duffel bags stuffed with $1.2 million worth of cocaine bricks.
Match claimed at the that he’s innocent, but didn’t testify at his trial because his former lawyer indicated he would be acquitted.
The judge dismissed his request when he was sentenced in August, but didn’t explain why until this week.
She says Match was well aware he could have testified, but still chose to follow his lawyer’s advice.
Match and Virk were arrested September 14, 2009 after U.S. border patrol motion-detection cameras spotted three men crossing into the United States and quickly backtracking into Canada in a heavily wooded and unmanned section near the Sumas border crossing, reported Abbotsford news.
Match and Virk were nabbed around 10:45 p.m. in a co-ordinated bust involving Abbotsford Police, K-9 units, U.S. Border Patrol Services, and the RCMP.
APD officers discovered four duffel bags stuffed with tightly packed bricks of cocaine and tracked Match and Virk to a location a short distance away.
The RCMP helicopter was able to follow the pair using an infrared camera system, which helped to facilitate their capture.
The accused were each charged with one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking.
Match was charged with inflicting fear of injury in a 2007 incident in Delta that saw him fined $500 and put on a yearlong peace bond out of Surrey provincial court.
Virk was on probation when he was arrested from an assault conviction in March, 2013 that came while he was on probation from a previous assault in May 2008 in Pitt Meadows.
Considering the amount of cocaine seized in the incident, police said at the time it was likely there were gang connections behind the smuggling attempt.
