{"id":107091,"date":"2015-12-02T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/107091\/six-arrested-in-shebeen-raids\/"},"modified":"2015-12-02T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T07:00:41","slug":"six-arrested-in-shebeen-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/02\/six-arrested-in-shebeen-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Six arrested in shebeen raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent special operation in all of the informal settlements in Primrose, six illegal shebeens were closed.<\/p>\n<p>The Primrose police arrested six shebeen owners, aged between 27 and 32, after they were unable to produce a licence to sell liquor.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A large volume of alcohol was also confiscated during the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrimes like assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm, domestic violence, murder and other violent crimes are still a major problem in the informal settlements.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the abuse of alcohol plays a large role in these crimes,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep on conducting similar operations into the festive season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the accused paid admission of guilt fines and were released, while others appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where they were released on a warning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/96196\/germiston-cluster-cracks-down-on-illegal-taverns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston cluster cracks down on illegal taverns<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79142\/woman-arrested-for-selling-liquor-without-a-licence-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Woman arrested for selling liquor without a licence<\/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='b52caf2ae3b95f048110985fbc4d5680'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police shut down six illegal shebeens in a sigle weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":107181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-107091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","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\/107091","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=107091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}