{"id":143110,"date":"2017-01-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143110\/saps-nab-runaway-suspect\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T04:02:08","slug":"saps-nab-runaway-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/01\/27\/saps-nab-runaway-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPS nab runaway suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston SAPS members were patrolling in Germiston, last Tuesday, when they were stopped by a member of the community who wanted to give them information about two suspicious men.<\/p>\n<p>The police rushed to the scene where they found the men.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>As soon as they saw the police vehicle they started to run away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police gave chase and the men tried to run across the busy M2 highway,\u201d said Capt George Raphulu, head of communications for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne managed to get across but the second suspect was knocked over by a truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truck driver stopped his vehicle and the suspect jumped up and continued to run away holding a firearm in his hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The SAPS members managed to catch and arrest the man and found him to be in possession of unlicensed live ammunition, as well as a toy gun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect was taken to hospital due to the injuries he sustained when he was knocked over by the truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe matter is currently under police investigation,\u201d said Raphulu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142440\/task-team-members-nab-four\/\" target=\"_blank\">Task Team members nab four<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/142205\/keep-the-cpf-informed-about-crime-in-the-area\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keep the CPF informed about crime in the 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='eec08bad6e4ca5cb843afa565f5e6a5f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man nabbed with toy gun, live ammunition after being knocked over by a truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":143111,"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":[989,969,3784,2734,999,13530,998],"class_list":["post-143110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-m2-highway","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-possession-of-ulicensed-fire-arm-and-ammunition","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston city news","m2 highway","melissa hart","police","possession of ulicensed fire arm and ammunition","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143110","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=143110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}