{"id":133855,"date":"2016-09-23T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133855\/man-robbed-by-group-of-men\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:01:06","slug":"man-robbed-by-group-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/23\/man-robbed-by-group-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Man robbed by group of men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man recently opened a case of common robbery at the Primrose Police Station after he was accosted by a group of men on his way home.<\/p>\n<p>The man told police he was walking to the Makause informal settlement when he met a group of men.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe men allegedly grabbed the victim and roughly searched him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took his cellphone and R1 300 in cash,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Using the description given by the victim, officers were able to trace one of the men he claimed robbed him.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old man was arrested and taken the Primrose Police Station pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still searching for the other men allegedly involved in the robbery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133729\/man-arrested-for-august-kidnapping-and-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested for August kidnapping and murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133603\/man-found-with-suspected-stolen-property-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man found with suspected stolen property<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133338\/germiston-saps-investigate-gosforth-park-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston SAPS investigate Gosforth Park fire<\/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='f673aff209941618957ecac2c82a1782'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man robbed by a group of men on his way home from work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":133856,"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":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-133855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","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","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\/133855","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=133855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}