{"id":101585,"date":"2015-10-05T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101585\/elspark-house-robbers-on-the-run\/"},"modified":"2015-10-05T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T07:23:08","slug":"elspark-house-robbers-on-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/05\/elspark-house-robbers-on-the-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Elspark house robbers on the run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg SAPS are hunting for three house robbers.<\/p>\n<p>The men gained entry to a flat, through the open bathroom window, at 3.50am on Friday morning, in Patrick Street, Elspark.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey proceeded to tie up the victims with ties and took jewellery, a Samsung LED flat screen TV, a silver and black Dell laptop and a silver Acer laptop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey then loaded them into a company vehicle, a Polo Vivo,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>All the suspects were armed &#8212; two were armed with pistols and one with a shotgun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo shots were fired and no injuries were sustained during the robbery,\u201d said Phooko.<\/p>\n<p>The total value of the items stolen is estimated to be R290 000.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects escaped in the company vehicle but it was later discovered by a tracking company in Reiger Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Elsburg police are continuing with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95234\/elsburg-police-issue-safety-tips-to-the-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elsburg police issue safety tips to the community<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95827\/31-gcn-crime-hija-lh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for stealing vehicle in Elsburg<\/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='978c1d5ac3df2f6b78f5bf4d3184d998'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police hunt for house robbery suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":101622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[989,1509,1218,979,969,1322,2734,999,1572,998],"class_list":["post-101585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-elspark","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-house-robbery","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","Elsburg SAPS","elspark","germiston","germiston city news","house robbery","melissa hart","police","robbery","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101585","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\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}