{"id":104648,"date":"2015-11-15T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/104648\/police-raid-shut-down-three-taverns\/"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:09:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T07:09:49","slug":"police-raid-shut-down-three-taverns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/15\/police-raid-shut-down-three-taverns\/","title":{"rendered":"Police raid, shut down three taverns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three illegal taverns in the Marathon informal settlement were recently closed down during a Germiston cluster station operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers raided three taverns and demanded to see the owners\u2019 liquor licenses. None of the owners could produce a license,\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>The three owners, aged between 27 and 35 years, were arrested and detained at the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are experiencing a rise in alcohol abuse in our informal settlements and will continue to conduct similar operations,\u201d said Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The three men appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court on charges of selling liquor without a license.<\/p>\n<p>Their cases were postponed for trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100824\/three-shot-at-sunnyrock-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three shot at Sunnyrock complex<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/100818\/morning-hijacking-and-robbery-spree-halted-by-empd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morning hijacking and robbery spree halted by EMPD<\/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='edc8f68be63497208243e17c81466761'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three arrested during raid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":104649,"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],"class_list":["post-104648","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"],"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104648","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=104648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}