{"id":113096,"date":"2016-02-10T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113096\/man-arrested-for-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T06:19:25","slug":"man-arrested-for-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/10\/man-arrested-for-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the Primrose Police Station recently arrested a 27-year-old man in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The man is accused of robbing two men, in an open veld, at gunpoint.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant alleged that he was in the open veld with a friend, both were relieving themselves from the call of nature, when they were approached by an unknown man,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The man allegedly pointed a gun at the two men and ordered them to hand over their belongings, before disappearing.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was charged with armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for a bail application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112598\/couple-tied-up-and-robbed-in-their-home\/\" target=\"_blank\">Couple tied up and robbed in their home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/112417\/hawks-discover-dagga-plantation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawks discover dagga plantation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113101\/alleged-tyre-thief-nabbed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police recover R1-million worth of tyres, arrest one<\/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='5005979fb66d0e2384eb88f07d9a799d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest a 27-year-old man accused of robbing two men at gun point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":113097,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-113096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","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":["community","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\/113096","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=113096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}