{"id":108129,"date":"2015-12-17T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/108129\/police-find-unlicensed-firearm-in-mars-street\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T06:47:51","slug":"police-find-unlicensed-firearm-in-mars-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/12\/17\/police-find-unlicensed-firearm-in-mars-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Police find unlicensed firearm in Mars Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After recently receiving an anonymous tip-off, the Primrose police visited a 49-year-old man\u2019s Mars Street business.<\/p>\n<p>When the officers arrived they noticed that the man appeared panicked, and asked to search the premises.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During the search two firearms were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The man was able to produce a license for the first weapon, but not for the second.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers asked where he had obtained the firearm, but the accused was unable to give a clear explanation.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/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='eca3186fc7d6ac5dd4d9abf1f84fc029'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accused allows officers to search his premises after police receive tip-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":108130,"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-108129","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\/108129","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=108129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}