{"id":127407,"date":"2016-07-12T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T06:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/127407\/two-nabbed-with-drugs\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T06:54:11","slug":"two-nabbed-with-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/12\/two-nabbed-with-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Two nabbed with drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a routine patrol of Primrose, members of the EMPD and Benoni K9 Unit arrested two men, aged 28 and 31.<\/p>\n<p>They were charged with drug possession.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The first suspect was arrested in Filbert Street, after officers received a complaint from residents about a suspicious-looking man in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man was found in possession of a white substance in a plastic bag,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The second man was arrested at the corner of Cactus and Rietfontein roads, when he was also found in possession of a white substance, believed to be drugs, in a plastic bag.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were arrested and detained at the Primrose Police Station, pending their appearance in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Primrose SAPS&#8217;s station commander, Lieut-Col Albertina Vesi, thanked everyone who contributed to the arrests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126345\/illegal-taverns-in-katlehong-raided-by-empd\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illegal taverns in Katlehong raided by EMPD<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126352\/empd-cracks-down-on-drinking-and-driving\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD cracks down on drinking and driving<\/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='8f0a0c130fbe5b768b33f5569f2d1003'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the Benoni K9 Unit, together with members of the EMPD, arrested two men for possession of drugs in the Primrose area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":104079,"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-127407","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\/127407","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=127407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}