{"id":140752,"date":"2016-12-19T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140752\/landlord-helps-identify-thief\/"},"modified":"2016-12-19T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T10:30:43","slug":"landlord-helps-identify-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/12\/19\/landlord-helps-identify-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Landlord helps identify thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a man returned to his Simon Street, Rustivia, home he discovered his washing machine had been taken.<\/p>\n<p>Confused he asked his landlord if she had seen anything.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe landlord alleged that she saw a 24-year-old man, known to the complainant, taking the washing machine,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The police were called to the scene and a formal case was opened.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cUsing the description given by the complainant and the landlord officers were able to find the suspect,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and charged with theft.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, where his case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140383\/community-marches-against-substance-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Community marches against substance abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140769\/tip-off-leads-to-arrest-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tip-off leads to arrest\u00a0<\/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='aaf98539ed572114272dbaa0a791ca51'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old man was arrested after allegedly stealing a washing machine in Primrose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141067,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1137],"class_list":["post-140752","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-primrose-saps","tag-saps","tag-theft"],"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","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140752","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=140752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}