Brothers Keepers associate facing additional charges
A Surrey rapper and Brothers Keepers associate is facing new charges after he allegedly escaped from police as they conducted a curfew check at his home last week.
Naseem Ali Mohammed, 21, was released on several conditions after being charged in Ontario in December with unlawful confinement, assault, pointing a firearm, uttering death threats, theft and robbery.
He was under house arrest at his family’s Surrey home when the local RCMP’s Gang Enforcement Team arrived about 6 p.m. on March 2 to do the curfew check, as well as arrest him on a B.C. warrant related to a driving while prohibited charge laid last fall.
Cpl. Elenore Sturko confirmed Monday that Mohammed opened the door a crack, saw the officers and then “slammed the door right away.”
“They verbally arrested him, but did not have him in hand,” she said.
They assumed he was holed up in the house, so called for assistance to create a containment area around the residence. But when a relative arrived at the home a while later, they searched inside and told police that Mohammed was not there.
Now he is facing additional charges of breaching a release order, wilfully resisting or obstructing a peace officer and escaping lawfully custody or being unlawfully at large.
There is a new warrant out for his arrest.
Mohammed, who raps under the name Wlatt, is close to several Metro Toronto rappers, including a man known as Why-G.
On Instagram, Why-G lamented the murder of his friend and fellow rapper Keeshawn Brown, who was gunned down in a south Surrey house on Dec. 23, 2019.
Why-G also did a rap song with Mohammed that was posted on YouTube on Oct. 31, 2019.
Mohammed is closely linked to the Brothers Keepers. In 2018, he was on a Vancouver harbour cruise with gang members, captured in photos of the event obtained by Postmedia.
He travelled to Russia last year with Toronto rapper Pressa and was featured in a video of the trip posted to YouTube.
A Postmedia investigation recently revealed that warring gangsters with the Brothers Keepers and their rivals in the Kang group have been posting rap songs online, taunting each other and advocating more violence.
One of the songs supporting the Kang side included a recording of a 911 call made by the brother of Gavinder Grewal after he found the Brothers Keepers leader shot to death in his North Vancouver penthouse.