{"id":101897,"date":"2015-10-09T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/101897\/three-robbers-target-elsburg-shop\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T06:59:01","slug":"three-robbers-target-elsburg-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/10\/09\/three-robbers-target-elsburg-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Three robbers target Elsburg shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg SAPS are on the hunt for three robbers after a business robbery in Elsburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that at 8.15pm, three men recently entered a shop in Voortrekker Road, Elsburg,\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>\u201cThey demanded money from the complainant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the men was in possession of a firearm.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The men forcefully took R2 000 in cash, two cellphones and an undisclosed number of cartons of cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>They then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>As they were fleeing one of the men fired a shot into the ground which resulted in the injury of one of his accomplices.<\/p>\n<p>The men escaped in a black VW Polo Classic, with an unknown registration number.<\/p>\n<p>The SAPS are currently following up leads and the investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/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='013471d96b9ba9a61ba640562b3338f9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police on the hunt for robbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":101908,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-101897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101897","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=101897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}