{"id":104561,"date":"2015-11-13T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/104561\/tip-off-leads-to-mans-arrest\/"},"modified":"2015-11-14T06:25:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T04:25:52","slug":"tip-off-leads-to-mans-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/13\/tip-off-leads-to-mans-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip-off leads to man\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent police patrol in the Makause informal settlement, officers received an anonymous tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe informant told police about a 31-year-old who was in possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers traced the accused and while searching the man, the officers found five rounds of live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could not give them a clear explanation as to where he had gotten the ammunition and could not produce a firearm licence,\u201d Maome explained.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was arrested and detained at the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon for the illegal possession of live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/56408\/man-nabbed-possession-unlicensed-firearm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man nabbed for possession of unlicensed firearm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88239\/four-men-found-with-unlicensed-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four men found with unlicensed firearms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/103836\/man-found-with-unlicensed-firearm-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man found with unlicensed firearm<\/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='ffb76153ee2fdd67ae416ca6df1cc4bd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for the illegal possession of live ammunition to appear in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":104631,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-104561","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-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","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\/104561","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=104561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}