{"id":125824,"date":"2016-06-24T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125824\/five-arrested-for-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:04:35","slug":"five-arrested-for-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/24\/five-arrested-for-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"Five arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the EMPD and Primrose police recently held a stop-and-search operation in Primrose.<\/p>\n<p>During the operation five men, aged between 22 and 41 years old, were arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe operation, which saw EMPD and SAPS members conducting vehicle searches at several points, was aimed at reducing the number of drunk drivers, hijackings and motor vehicle thefts in the area,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>Station commander for the Primrose police Lieut-Col Albertina Vesi thanked the EMPD for their assistance.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The suspects appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where their cases were postponed for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/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='c8b40e5be510f696cc80d679652a2915'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an EMPD operation in the Primrose area five men were arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":125825,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,988,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-125824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125824","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=125824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}