{"id":113781,"date":"2016-02-18T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113781\/thorough-police-work-pays-off\/"},"modified":"2016-02-19T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T07:10:25","slug":"thorough-police-work-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/02\/18\/thorough-police-work-pays-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops nab three alleged hijackers in Lambton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While out patrolling in Lambton on Thursday, members of the Germiston SAPS noticed a suspicious vehicle with three men in it.<\/p>\n<p>The officers, WO Jabu Mahlaba, Const Goodman Msweli and Const Sandile Mbatha, ordered the driver of the white Toyota Yaris to stop.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter a thorough search of the men, the officers turned their attention to the vehicle,\u201d said WO Andr\u00e9 de Jager, spokesman for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey discovered that the vehicle had been hijacked in Kempton Park in 2014.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The suspects, aged 29, 36 and 39, were arrested and taken to the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>They are due to appear in the Germiston 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\/113524\/police-name-smash-and-grab-hot-spot-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police name smash-and-grab hot spot areas<\/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='70f9bce069d8f88ee42b39d86cf7a354'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston SAPS recently arrested three alleged hijackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":113782,"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":[989,979,969,1032,1136,1059,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-113781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-hijack","tag-lambton","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","germiston city news","germiston saps","hijack","lambton","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113781","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=113781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}