{"id":141465,"date":"2017-01-20T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141465\/generator-battery-and-diesel-stolen-from-local-business\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:02:37","slug":"generator-battery-and-diesel-stolen-from-local-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/20\/generator-battery-and-diesel-stolen-from-local-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Generator battery and diesel stolen from local business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested a 40-year-old man in connection with a business break-in and theft.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made after the complainant reported that his Rietfontein Road store had been burgled.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe told police he had locked up as usual and when he returned the next morning he noticed a light was on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon further inspection he discovered a generator battery and nine 25-litre containers of diesel were missing,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The total value of the goods taken was estimated at R10 000.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to trace and arrest the accused after following several leads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the booking process at the Primrose Police Station the suspect was linked to a further four cases,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141622\/officers-nab-man-after-long-chase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers nab man after long chase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141219\/police-address-trio-and-contact-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police address trio and contact crimes<\/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='20a6f1fbb9328ab80f7168923fdba4a3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspect linked to another four cases after being arrested for a business break-in and theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141466,"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":[8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-141465","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-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","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","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141465","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=141465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}