{"id":143106,"date":"2017-01-27T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143106\/crates-of-liquor-destroyed\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:59:36","slug":"crates-of-liquor-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/27\/crates-of-liquor-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"Crates of liquor destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a series of successful police operations in the Primrose area police destroyed 46 crates of liquor.<\/p>\n<p>The alcohol was confiscated from illegal taverns in Primrose\u2019s three informal settlements, the Makause, Delport and Marathon informal settlements.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cSelling liquor without a licence is a criminal offence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to experience challenges related to the abuse of liquor especially in the informal settlements,\u201d said 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>Police are appealing to the community to refrain from selling liquor without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will conduct similar operations to stop the illegal sale of liquor and once we confiscate the alcohol we will destroy it,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/141467\/police-investigate-concealment-of-birth-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police investigate concealment of birth case<\/a><\/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<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='46a0fb3c1290cc0863d0f116e13410e5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police destroy 46 crates full of liquor seized during the shutdown of illegal taverns in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":143107,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,2362],"class_list":["post-143106","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-south-africa"],"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","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143106","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=143106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}