{"id":133878,"date":"2016-09-23T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/133878\/five-illegal-taverns-closed-in-primrose\/"},"modified":"2016-09-23T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T07:31:54","slug":"five-illegal-taverns-closed-in-primrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/09\/23\/five-illegal-taverns-closed-in-primrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Five illegal taverns closed in Primrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police closed down five illegal taverns and confiscated thousands of litres of alcohol in a recent operation.<\/p>\n<p>The operation saw officers travelling to the Makause, Delport and Marathon informal settlements in an effort to crack down on the illegal sale of alcohol.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe officers moved through the informal settlements on foot and visited several addresses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe owners of the taverns were asked for their liquor licences but they were unable to produce them,\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>Five tavern owners were arrested for selling liquor without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>All of the suspects, aged between 24 and 56 years old, paid an admission of guilt fine and were released with a warning.<\/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='823e024677ac72e77880227fd4c9b92c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police continued their efforts to crackdown on illegal taverns in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":111545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-133878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","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\/133878","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=133878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}