{"id":143868,"date":"2017-02-11T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143868\/five-illegal-taverns-closed-in-primrose-2\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T07:04:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T05:04:43","slug":"five-illegal-taverns-closed-in-primrose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/11\/five-illegal-taverns-closed-in-primrose-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Five illegal taverns closed in Primrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol abuse in the informal settlements of Primrose continues to be a challenge to the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind officers from the station have been holding regular operations in the Makause, Marathon and Delport informal settlements in an effort to curb the problem.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During the station\u2019s most recent operation, in the Makause informal settlement, officers closed down five illegal taverns confiscating crates of liquor.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of each tavern, aged between 21 and 37 years old, was arrested and charged with dealing in liquor without a licence, when they were unable to give police their liquor licences.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The accused were taken to the Primrose Police Station where they were formally charged, but later released after paying admission of guilt fines.<\/p>\n<p>The confiscated alcohol will be destroyed at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144074\/police-nab-man-at-car-wash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police nab man at car wash<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143749\/driveway-robberies-on-the-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Driveway robberies on the increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143555\/attempted-smash-and-grab-in-germiston\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attempted smash-and-grab in Germiston<\/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='ec6a738811d0c40589153fa0522a9389'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police continue to crackdown on the illegal sale of alcohol in Primrose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":143869,"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],"class_list":["post-143868","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"],"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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143868","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=143868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}