{"id":132222,"date":"2016-09-02T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132222\/alleged-drunk-driver-nabbed-in-primrose\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:10:50","slug":"alleged-drunk-driver-nabbed-in-primrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/02\/alleged-drunk-driver-nabbed-in-primrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged drunk driver nabbed in Primrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent patrol in Primrose, members of the EMPD arrested a 29-year-old man for driving under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>The man was first pulled over by officers when they noticed him driving recklessly in Main Reef Road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe police could smell the alcohol on the man when they approached him and when they asked him to get out of the vehicle he could hardly stand,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station where he was detained pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing to our community to stop driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs as by doing this they put innocent lives in danger,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131969\/police-nab-man-for-allegedly-robbing-teenager\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police nab man for allegedly robbing teenager<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131559\/man-arrested-after-business-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested after business robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/131056\/germiston-police-catch-man-in-the-act-of-selling-dagga\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston police catch man in the act of selling dagga<\/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='3baab1d820015e693027e49f00b91b37'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was recently pulled over and arrested in Primrose after EMPD officers noticed him driving recklessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":132223,"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-132222","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\/132222","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=132222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}