{"id":143870,"date":"2017-02-14T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/143870\/tip-off-leads-to-arrest-7\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:01:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:01:24","slug":"tip-off-leads-to-arrest-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/14\/tip-off-leads-to-arrest-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip-off leads to arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving an anonymous tip-off Primrose police rushed to the Makause informal settlement on Sunday February 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficers were told that there was a 28-year-old man hanging around outside a local tuck shop, with a firearm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe anonymous source had become concerned by the man\u2019s suspicious behaviour,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>Police quickly found the man fitting the given description and asked to search him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During the search officers found a loaded firearm and asked for the man\u2019s gun licence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe could not give officers a licence for the firearm and was arrested,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The Primrose police\u2019s station commander Col Albertina Vesi thanked the member of the community who gave officers the tip-off and encouraged the community to become more involved in the fight against crime.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect will appear in the Germiston 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\/144286\/staff-held-up-in-armed-robbery\/\">Staff held up in armed robbery<\/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='04e970f1e0173e565e1a865d51984fb7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old man was recently arrested for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":143871,"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-143870","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\/143870","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=143870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}