{"id":100179,"date":"2015-09-19T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=100179"},"modified":"2015-09-19T13:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T11:09:31","slug":"breaking-news-drugs-worth-over-r250-000-found-in-germiston-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/19\/breaking-news-drugs-worth-over-r250-000-found-in-germiston-cbd\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Drugs worth over R250 000 found in Germiston CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston SAPS made a huge drug bust, on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>At about 1.40pm, officers were conducting a stop-and-search operation at the intersection of Linton Jones and Railway streets when they stopped a red VW Golf, with three occupants.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100181\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/38GCNCRIMEDRUGMH2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100181\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/38GCNCRIMEDRUGMH2-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"The red VW Golf which the suspects were driving. It is believed that the car was stolen.\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The red VW Golf which the suspects were driving. It is believed that the car was stolen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cUpon searching the vehicle, the police discovered a 20 litre bucket containing tablets and powder suspected to be drugs in white transparent bags,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Germiston Cluster SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter being questioned, the suspects confirmed that indeed they were drugs.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The police confiscated 8.76kg of powder packed in eleven 2kg packets and the tablets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach packet is worth about R25 000 and each tablet is worth about R250 on the streets,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>Upon checking the vehicle, the officers suspected that it had been stolen, because the VIN number had been changed.<\/p>\n<p>Three suspects, aged between 24 and 28 years old, were arrested and detained at the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>They are due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_100182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100182\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/38GCNCRIMEDRUGMH3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100182\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/09\/38GCNCRIMEDRUGMH3-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"Three suspects were arrested by the Germiston SAPS and taken to the Germiston Police Station to be detained.\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three suspects were arrested by the Germiston SAPS and taken to the Germiston Police Station to be detained.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100097\/police-warn-children-to-be-careful\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police warn children to be careful<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/99949\/thieves-strike-in-lambton\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lambton family overpowered, tied-up in their home<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8c0b575c962a206daf396d095882bca5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston SAPS make huge drug bust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":100180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[989,6745,1112,969,1032,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-100179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-drug-bust","tag-drugs","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","drug bust","drugs","germiston city news","germiston saps","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}