{"id":141374,"date":"2017-01-18T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141374\/three-arrested-for-selling-liquor-without-a-licence\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T10:49:03","slug":"three-arrested-for-selling-liquor-without-a-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/18\/three-arrested-for-selling-liquor-without-a-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Three arrested for selling liquor without a licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three illegal taverns were closed and litres of illegal alcohol seized during a recent operation held by the Primrose police in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are experiencing an increase in crimes such as murder, assaults and robberies, all related to liquor abuse in the informal settlements.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep on conducting similar operations in the informal settlements until there is no crime in the area,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the closing of the taverns the three owners, aged between 28 and 44 years old, were arrested after they failed to give officers their liquor licences when asked.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The suspects were arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station where they paid admission of guilt fines before being released.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other article you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141924\/man-severely-beaten-with-steel-and-wooden-sticks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man severely beaten with steel and wooden sticks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141474\/missing-katlehong-man-found-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Missing Katlehong man found dead<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141783\/elderly-woman-beaten-and-raped-in-katlehong\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elderly woman beaten and raped in Katlehong<\/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='79d727020f7a93fdf94d78e544dd8b8b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police continued their efforts to stop the abuse of alcohol in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141375,"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],"class_list":["post-141374","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"],"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\/141374","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=141374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}