{"id":125714,"date":"2016-06-23T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125714\/man-tries-to-bribe-cop-is-arrested-2\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T08:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T06:55:07","slug":"man-tries-to-bribe-cop-is-arrested-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/23\/man-tries-to-bribe-cop-is-arrested-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Detective offered a bribe in his own office, man arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old man got quite a shock when he was arrested after trying to give a Germiston SAPS detective a R5 000 bribe, in the detective\u2019s own office, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>At about 9.10am, the man, who is a suspect in a case regarding the contravention of the Second Hand Goods Act, went to the Germiston Police Station to speak to the detective who is currently investigating his case.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe went to the detective\u2019s office with the aim of bribing the detective in charge with an amount of R5 000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted his case to be finalised without the correct procedures being followed,\u201d said Capt George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect took the money out of his pocket and forced the police detective to take it, and said he must drop his case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a very serious case, amounting to R750 000 for the businessman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officer immediately arrested the man and the money was booked in as an exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is currently being detained at the Germiston Police Station and will 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\/125469\/police-hunt-for-gunmen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police hunt for gunmen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125283\/creating-awareness-about-business-robberies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creating awareness about business robberies<\/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='0e48628f1bf338bc777db5ca98f07800'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A businessman offered to pay R5 000 for his case to go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":125715,"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":[1535,6281,989,979,969,1032,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-125714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-bribe","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrest","bribe","crime","germiston","germiston city news","germiston saps","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125714","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=125714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}