{"id":143281,"date":"2017-02-02T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143281\/alleged-thieves-hold-shopkeeper-at-knife-point\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T08:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T06:41:27","slug":"alleged-thieves-hold-shopkeeper-at-knife-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/02\/alleged-thieves-hold-shopkeeper-at-knife-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged thieves hold shopkeeper at knife-point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was recently arrested by the Katlehong South police in the Mofokeng Section for a December business robbery.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the 26-year-old suspect entered a local tuck shop, with a male accomplice, and held the shopkeeper at knife-point before stealing a number of items from the shop.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The men then left the store on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Police began to investigate the case and with the help of an eyewitness were able to find and arrest the man.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe second suspect still remains at large, officers are continuing the search for him,\u201d said Capt Maga Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West cluster.<\/p>\n<p>The man will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143173\/man-nabbed-for-sexual-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man nabbed for sexual assault\u00a0<\/a><\/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<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='e7a456e5e67fee916ec1a9b1bfa50312'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyewitness account helps police trace alleged business robber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":63700,"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-143281","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\/143281","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=143281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}