{"id":113742,"date":"2016-02-19T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113742\/firearm-recovered-alleged-thief-nabbed\/"},"modified":"2016-02-19T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T13:05:10","slug":"firearm-recovered-alleged-thief-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/19\/firearm-recovered-alleged-thief-nabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Firearm recovered, alleged thief nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An alleged firearm thief has been arrested by members of the EMPD.<\/p>\n<p>The firearm was stolen from a Zonkezizwe resident in January.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Fortunately, information was received by the EMPD Germiston Crime Prevention Task Team, which led to the arrest of the suspect, as well as the recovery of the stolen Norinco 9mm pistol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officers pounced on the 19-year-old man while he was sleeping in his Zonkezizwe home at 4am, on Wednesday,\u201d said Lieut-Col Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was taken to the Zonkezizwe Police Station and charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113781\/thorough-police-work-pays-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cops nab three alleged hijackers in Lambton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113313\/new-modus-operandi-used-by-criminals-to-hijack-vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\">New modus operandi used by criminals to hijack vehicles<\/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='328c9926bb67a143dc12ac5227e740a7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":113743,"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":[989,988,2667,979,969,1015,2734,999,998,1137,7766,7768],"class_list":["post-113742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-firearm","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-theft","tag-zonkezizwe","tag-zonkezizwe-police"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","empd","Firearm","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong","melissa hart","police","SAPS","theft","zonkezizwe","zonkezizwe police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742","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=113742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}