{"id":131885,"date":"2016-08-31T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131885\/operation-nets-14-allegedly-drunk-drivers\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T09:31:18","slug":"operation-nets-14-allegedly-drunk-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/08\/31\/operation-nets-14-allegedly-drunk-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation nets 14 allegedly drunk drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EMPD Freeway Unit blitzed the N17 highway eastbound last weekend near the Osborn Road off-ramp in Wadeville, targeting drunken driving.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was conducted on Friday and Saturday between 6pm and midnight.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe crackdown yielded 14 drivers found to have allegedly taken one glass too many while behind the wheel on a public road,\u201d said Lieut-Col Wilfred Kgasago, spokesman for the EMPD.<\/p>\n<p>All 14 of the arrested drivers were men and aged between 23 and 58.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Charges of driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor were registered against them at the Elsburg Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>They were expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be\u00a0 interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131538\/streets-cleared-of-illegal-hawkers-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Streets cleared of illegal hawkers again<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131422\/women-cops-hold-roadblock-patrol-problem-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women cops hold roadblock, patrol problem areas<\/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='5554c901b76f0d548986dd5ecc37710a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EMPD Freeway Unit targeted drunken drivers, last weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":85074,"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":[1914,11926,988,979,969,9206,2734,2188,7394,1267],"class_list":["post-131885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-drunken-driving","tag-elsburg-police-station","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-highway","tag-melissa-hart","tag-n17-highway","tag-osborn-road","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["drunken driving","elsburg police station","empd","germiston","germiston city news","highway","melissa hart","n17 highway","Osborn road","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131885","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=131885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}