{"id":121915,"date":"2016-05-19T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121915\/dagga-is-a-drug-say-police\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T09:17:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T07:17:25","slug":"dagga-is-a-drug-say-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/05\/19\/dagga-is-a-drug-say-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Dagga is a drug \u2013 say police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose Police recently arrested five suspects for the possession of dagga, in the informal settlements of Primrose.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made during stop-and-searches held in the Makause, Delport and Marathon informal settlements.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The five men were found with dagga in their pockets when they were searched by police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to appeal to the community to remember that dagga is still regarded as a drug and anyone found in possession of it will face criminal charges,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A number of the accused paid admission of guilt fines and were released, while others appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court and were released on a warning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/121282\/five-men-arrested-for-copper-cable-possession\/\" target=\"_blank\">Five men arrested for copper cable possession<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120654\/beware-of-online-scams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beware of online scams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/119779\/gate-motor-theft-on-the-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gate motor theft on the increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/119480\/police-investigate-childs-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police investigate child\u2019s murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/119405\/officer-shot-during-chase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Officer shot during chase<\/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='a893ec5701e6898d9094d157492be1fe'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During police stop-and-searches five men were arrested for the possession of dagga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":122004,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,997,998],"class_list":["post-121915","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-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 SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121915","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=121915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}