{"id":135613,"date":"2016-10-13T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135613\/unlicensed-firearm-taken-for-ballistics-testing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-13T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:02:06","slug":"unlicensed-firearm-taken-for-ballistics-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/13\/unlicensed-firearm-taken-for-ballistics-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlicensed firearm taken for ballistics testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong police recently arrested a 32-year-old man at the Kwesine Hostel in Katlehong.<\/p>\n<p>The man was allegedly found in possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The arrest was made during a police stop-and-search operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers received information from a community member who claimed that the man was in possession of the unlicensed firearm,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe from the Ekurhuleni West Cluster.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Police went to the hostel and during a search they discovered a pistol, with the serial number filed away, inside the suspect\u2019s room under his bed.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested and taken to the Katlehong Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe firearm will be taken to ballistics for further investigation and testing to determine whether the weapon was used in other crimes in the area,\u201d Ndobe said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134898\/man-lures-young-girl-to-his-home-allegedly-rapes-her\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man lures young girl to his home, allegedly rapes her<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134675\/stock-assault-leaves-woman-beaten\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shock assault leaves woman beaten<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/134719\/two-men-arrested-for-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two men arrested for rape<\/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='de5261f924262402a5d96662735ba6bd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong police seized an unlicensed firearm from a 32-year-old man at the Kwesine Hostel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":135614,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-135613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135613","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=135613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}