{"id":104048,"date":"2015-11-06T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/104048\/man-nabbed-with-drugs-in-his-pocket\/"},"modified":"2015-11-06T08:55:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T06:55:23","slug":"man-nabbed-with-drugs-in-his-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/06\/man-nabbed-with-drugs-in-his-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Man nabbed with drugs in his pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While members of the Elsburg police were patrolling in Voortrekker Street, Elsburg, last Saturday, at 5.30pm, they noticed a suspicious looking man.<\/p>\n<p>He was sitting on the pavement and when he saw them he tried to hide something he had in his hands.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The police immediately stopped and approached the man.<\/p>\n<p>He was searched and the officer found a packet containing a white substance in one of his pockets.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The substance is suspected to be drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old man was arrested and detained at the Elsburg Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear in Germiston Magistrates Court soon on a charge of possession of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103579\/resident-shares-his-traumatic-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\">Resident shares his traumatic experience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103367\/germiston-cluster-stations-arrest-104\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston cluster stations arrest 104<\/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='8a32a7cd877f2ee6c12fb6f03d84cf3b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man to face possession of drugs charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":104079,"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":[989,1112,1318,1509,979,969,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-104048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-saps","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":["crime","drugs","elsburg","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104048","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=104048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}