{"id":130259,"date":"2016-08-12T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/130259\/man-found-with-unlicensed-firearm-3\/"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T09:58:42","slug":"man-found-with-unlicensed-firearm-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/12\/man-found-with-unlicensed-firearm-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found with unlicensed firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Primrose police recently arrested a 20-year-old man for being in possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made in Oak Avenue in Primrose East during a routine patrol of the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOfficers were patrolling when they noticed a suspicious vehicle parked in Oak Avenue,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>They approached the vehicle and asked that the four occupants exit the vehicle to be searched.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDuring the search officers found a black and silver 7.65 firearm loaded with three rounds of ammunition in the possession of one of the men,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to produce proof of ownership, the man was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129940\/did-you-witness-this-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">Did you witness this assault?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/129935\/smash-and-grabber-nabbed-by-police\/\" target=\"_blank\">Smash-and-grabber nabbed by police<\/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='42d4987014024077fd34ca601554eb39'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a stop-and-search in Oak Avenue police discovered an unlicensed firearm in the possession of a 20-year-old man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":130260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,509,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-130259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-note","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\/130259","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=130259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}