{"id":136788,"date":"2016-10-30T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136788\/police-target-criminals-3\/"},"modified":"2016-10-30T20:22:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T18:22:45","slug":"police-target-criminals-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/10\/30\/police-target-criminals-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Police target criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives from the Katlehong Police Station recently arrested 14 suspects in the Katlehong area.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made during a stop-and-search operation organised by the Katlehong Crime Prevention Unit.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cDetectives used the opportunity to search for suspects wanted for several different crimes in area,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, the corporate communications officer for the Ekurhuleni West Cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Suspects arrested were charged with serious assault, housebreaking and theft, attempted murder, malicious damage to property, contravening a court order, warrant of arrest and possession of drugs, including dagga and nyaope.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>All of the arrested suspects appeared in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court, where their cases were postponed for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Katlehong Police Station team plans to continue holding similar operations in the area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you might also be interested in reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/136124\/police-arent-doing-enough-says-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police aren\u2019t doing enough, says victim<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135654\/man-allegedly-rapes-woman-in-main-reef-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man allegedly rapes woman in Main Reef Road<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/135613\/unlicensed-firearm-taken-for-ballistics-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unlicensed firearm taken for ballistics testing<\/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='0f581d8589661541f2a377deb13143ef'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives use stop-and-search to hunt for wanted suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":136059,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,998],"class_list":["post-136788","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-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","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136788","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=136788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}