{"id":133857,"date":"2016-09-25T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133857\/k9-unit-finds-unlicensed-firearm\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:43:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T18:43:27","slug":"k9-unit-finds-unlicensed-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/25\/k9-unit-finds-unlicensed-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"K9 Unit finds unlicensed firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 40-year-old man was arrested, last Sunday, in Primrose, by officers from the Benoni K9 Unit.<\/p>\n<p>The man was charged with the possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe man was spotted behaving suspiciously by officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey stopped him on the corner of Rietfontein and Cemetery roads, in Primrose,\u201d explained 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>He was searched and officers found a black 9mm pistol with 11 rounds of live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accused was asked for a firearm licence which he was unable to produce,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station where he was formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/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='983e93dd191352d2365d933a535c7e0f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Benoni K9 Unit recently arrested a man in Primrose for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and live ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":133859,"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-133857","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\/133857","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=133857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}