{"id":127441,"date":"2016-07-14T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/127441\/young-woman-demands-ransom-for-herself\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:29:34","slug":"young-woman-demands-ransom-for-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/14\/young-woman-demands-ransom-for-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"Young woman demands ransom for herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old woman was arrested by the Alberton SAPS, on Monday, for faking her kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe young woman allegedly went to spend time with her boyfriend over the weekend,\u201d said Sgt Phora Nkuna, communications officer for the Alberton SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen her sister received a message from her cellphone, demanding a ransom, she alerted the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police spent the entire weekend investigating the matter, only to find the young woman at her place of residence in Phumula, near Leondale, safe and unharmed.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When questioned the woman admitted that she had sent the message herself and she was arrested for defeating the ends of justice and is due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon to answer to the charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity members must refrain from opening false cases, as that may get them arrested and charged,\u201d Nkuna said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/127454\/couple-hijacked-in-driveway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Couple hijacked in driveway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/127444\/community-leads-police-to-suspects\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community leads police to suspects<\/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='b7fe388c944d94fe49e132e52e996823'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young woman has been arrested after she pretended to be kidnapped and demanded ransom money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":127898,"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":[2472,989,11703,979,969,2267,1068,2734,11704,999,998],"class_list":["post-127441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-alberton-saps","tag-crime","tag-defeating-the-ends-of-justice","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-kidnapping","tag-leondale","tag-melissa-hart","tag-phumula","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["alberton saps","crime","defeating the ends of justice","germiston","germiston city news","kidnapping","leondale","melissa hart","phumula","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127441","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=127441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}