Man arrested after threats against Surrey councillor

Mounties in Surrey have arrested a man after death threats were made toward a member of Surrey city council and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday.

RCMP said they arrested a man later that day on two counts of uttering threats. The suspect, a 42-year old Surrey man, has been released on conditions with a court date scheduled for the new year. The man wasn't known to police. Surrey Coun. Jack Hundial, a former Surrey Mountie, said he got the message about 6:30 a.m. on Monday. The messenger had a social media profile containing their name and threatened to shoot both Hundial and Trudeau.

Hundial didn't want to specify details of the message or identify the social media platform the person used because of the police investigation.

But he said the message was disturbing enough that he contacted cops after doing his own assessment of the situation and discussing the threat with his partner. He then took screenshots from the person's profile and called the Surrey RCMP.

Hundial said the message contained “a single threat. And it was direct. It came through messenger online and had a bunch of slurs attached to it.”

One of the names he was called was “pig … you know, referencing my previous career,” he said. “And it was basically saying, put a bullet in me. And he also made reference to the prime minister — Trudeau — as well.”

While the person had a profile on social media, Hundial says he didn't know if it's a real one or not. It's not someone with whom he has had previous contact.