{"id":125826,"date":"2016-06-25T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/125826\/man-arrested-for-armed-robbery-and-assault\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T14:04:40","slug":"man-arrested-for-armed-robbery-and-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/06\/25\/man-arrested-for-armed-robbery-and-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for armed robbery and assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sitting in his yard in the Makause informal settlement, recently, a man was robbed and then beaten by a 23-year-old assailant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim told police that the man, whom he knows, approached him carrying a firearm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe entered the yard demanded the man\u2019s cellphone and cash and then grabbed a burning piece of wood and assaulted the complainant,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to track down the suspect, using the description given by the victim, and he was arrested.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for a bail application.<\/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\/125824\/five-arrested-for-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol\/\" target=\"_blank\">Five arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol<\/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='43249eae6ff7c2a689296b191569ca13'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old man was arrested for allegedly robbing and assaulting a man in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":125827,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-125826","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-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","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\/125826","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=125826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}