{"id":101723,"date":"2015-10-07T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101723\/man-tracks-down-stolen-goods\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T07:02:47","slug":"man-tracks-down-stolen-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/07\/man-tracks-down-stolen-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Man tracks down stolen goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After discovering that the lock on his garage had been broken open and the speakers in his car stolen, a Fishers\u2019 Hill home owner went searching for his missing items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant explained he went to a pawn shop in Shamrock Road, as he knows of stolen items sometimes being pawned there,\u201d explained the communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>After questioning staff at the shop the man discovered that the speaker had been pawned by his 24-year-old step-son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe then opened a case at the Primrose Police Station and gave officers a clear description of the accused which aided officers in tracing him,\u201d Maome said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was arrested on Tuesday, September 29, and charged with housebreaking and theft.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95188\/man-nabbed-selling-suspected-stolen-goods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man nabbed selling suspected stolen goods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81106\/three-men-found-with-assortment-of-stolen-goods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three men found with assortment of stolen goods<\/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='787b6e9d499910427973b8902f87e900'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step-son arrested for theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":101724,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,7029,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-101723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-housebreaking-and-theft","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","housebreaking and theft","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101723","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=101723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}