{"id":141552,"date":"2017-01-07T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141552\/men-make-off-with-bag-of-money\/"},"modified":"2017-01-07T08:26:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:26:01","slug":"men-make-off-with-bag-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/07\/men-make-off-with-bag-of-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Men make off with bag of money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old man was allegedly robbed at gunpoint when leaving his Katlehong home, recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim told officers from the Katlehong Police Station that he was leaving his house when he was approached by two unknown men.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe men allegedly pointed a firearm at him and ordered him to lie on the ground. They searched him and took a bag of money he had in his possession, before escaping on foot,\u201d explained Capt Mega Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The victim told police that he saw the two men climb into a white Volkswagen Golf.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe was able to give officers the registration details of the vehicle,\u201d said Ndobe.<\/p>\n<p>Officers traced the vehicle and arrested a 36-year-old man for the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was charged with armed robbery and will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court soon,\u201d Ndobe said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still searching for the second man allegedly involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/139954\/elsburg-police-take-to-the-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elsburg police take to the streets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/114032\/police-hand-out-pamphlets-addressing-crime-in-the-elsburg-area\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police hand out pamphlets addressing crime in the Elsburg area<\/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='3b13132b64d8adf1ded92adce88bab0c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man robbed at gunpoint as he leaves his Katlehong home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":141812,"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-141552","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\/141552","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=141552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}