{"id":140250,"date":"2016-12-08T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140250\/man-attempts-to-steal-childs-tablet\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T06:32:26","slug":"man-attempts-to-steal-childs-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/08\/man-attempts-to-steal-childs-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Man attempts to steal child\u2019s tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on routine patrol at Sontonga Mall, in the Khumalo Section of Katlehong, police officers heard a child screaming.<\/p>\n<p>They rushed to a local cellphone shop, where the screaming came from, and the child\u2019s father told the officers a man had stolen his son\u2019s tablet computer.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The son described the man and the officers chased after the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>They caught the 23-year-old suspect meters away from the mall exit, he was arrested and the stolen tablet recovered.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The suspect was charged with robbery and taken to the Katlehong Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was due to appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139379\/father-arrested-for-alleged-rape-of-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\">Father arrested for alleged rape of daughter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139360\/man-nabbed-for-salon-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salon\u2019s livelihood cut short after theft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139158\/tip-off-leads-to-arrest-of-suspected-dagga-dealers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tip-off leads to arrest of suspected dagga dealers<\/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='c7cc7c9e1bebd8802a9044957e025e7a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katlehong man nabbed for robbery after allegedly stealing child\u2019s tablet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":140266,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,1015,1034,1314,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-140250","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-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-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","katlehong","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140250","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=140250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}