Violent extortion threats forced him to transform his life. He wasn’t alone [Video]

For months, Abbotsford, B.C., businessman Jas Arora had been getting phone calls from strangers — people demanding money and threatening his family if he didn’t pay up. But the threats became real this August when his son woke him late one night, saying someone was throwing things at the house.

Arora raced outside, where he was overwhelmed by the smell of gasoline and found the driveway covered in broken glass.

“My wife said, ‘No, no, go inside right away … Please, shut down the lights and call the police immediately.’ ” 

So he did. When he checked the footage from his surveillance camera he saw grainy video of a man dressed in dark clothes hurling bottles at the house from outside the iron gate surrounding his home. 

As Arora was talking to the police at his house, his phone rang. A man speaking in Punjabi demanded money and told Arora …