{"id":131561,"date":"2016-08-27T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131561\/two-men-arrested-for-drug-possession\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:38:14","slug":"two-men-arrested-for-drug-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/27\/two-men-arrested-for-drug-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men arrested for drug possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have previously identified Primrose as a drug hot spot and have hosted several operations aimed at cracking down on offenders.<\/p>\n<p>During a routine patrol with members of the Johannesburg K9 Unit recently, the Primrose police arrested two men, aged 27 and 29 respectively, for dealing in and being in possession of drugs and possession of suspected stolen property.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The arrests were made in Filbert Street when the patrolling officers were tipped off by a member of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the search of the two men, drugs, four cellphones and an ID that did not belong to either suspect was found,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Police arrested the suspects and they were detained at the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The pair have since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court where the case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/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='2c922b9f50993adad2e9b91dcd249009'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police, together with the Johannesburg K9 Unit, arrested two men for drug possession in Primrose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":131624,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-131561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","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":["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\/131561","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=131561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}