{"id":131559,"date":"2016-08-28T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131559\/man-arrested-after-business-robbery\/"},"modified":"2016-08-29T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:03:18","slug":"man-arrested-after-business-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/28\/man-arrested-after-business-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after business robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police were recently called to a business in Rietfontein Road, in Primrose, where a 24-year-old man had allegedly broken in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant informed the police that he had heard a noise in the front yard of the property and moments later saw a man pushing a bicycle towards the gate.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe shouted at the man asking what he was doing there,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The accused allegedly dropped the bicycle and ran towards the gate with a blue bag, which the complaint later discovered was full of tools.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe man chased the suspect and was able to catch him and lock him in a storeroom to await the police\u2019s arrival,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested and detained at the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, where the matter 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\/131435\/eight-year-old-boy-kidnapped-found-murdered\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eight-year-old boy kidnapped, found dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131002\/alleged-rapist-sought-by-germiston-fcs-unit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alleged rapist sought by Germiston FCS Unit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/130994\/two-women-charged-with-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two women charged with assault<\/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='43cd8871d0cb5e4e2e4dd2ab72628857'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old man was arrested for a Rietfontein Road business robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":131635,"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-131559","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\/131559","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=131559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}