{"id":124138,"date":"2016-06-08T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/124138\/man-nabbed-with-crystal-meth-worth-r8-000\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:53:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T06:53:26","slug":"man-nabbed-with-crystal-meth-worth-r8-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/08\/man-nabbed-with-crystal-meth-worth-r8-000\/","title":{"rendered":"Man nabbed with crystal meth worth R8 000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EMPD Drug Enforcement Unit recently received information about a house in Els Street, Elsburg, which the community suspected was being used as a drug dealership.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance was carried out on the house and its occupant.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Then, last Wednesday, the EMPD officers swooped on the premises at about 1pm, and a Nigerian national was arrested after crystal meth valued at R8 000 was found in his room.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old man was taken to the Elsburg Police Station and charged with possession of and suspected dealing in drugs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/123843\/motorists-made-aware-of-smash-and-grab-hotspots\/\" target=\"_blank\">Motorists made aware of smash-and-grab hotspots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/123590\/police-attempt-to-identify-human-torso\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police attempt to identify human torso<\/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='0f01d24a9a1fdd49101a1b8b20e56709'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD officers arrest man with crystal methamphetamine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":124139,"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":[1112,1318,1509,988,979,969,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-124138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-drugs","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["drugs","elsburg","Elsburg SAPS","empd","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124138","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=124138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}