{"id":144074,"date":"2017-02-10T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144074\/police-nab-man-at-car-wash\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T08:32:52","slug":"police-nab-man-at-car-wash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/10\/police-nab-man-at-car-wash\/","title":{"rendered":"Police nab man at car wash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old man was recently arrested by the Katlehong police for being in possession of a suspected stolen motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were alerted to the man\u2019s whereabouts by a member of the community.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe informant told police that the accused was at a local car wash with the allegedly stolen BMW,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Officers rushed to the address where they found a man matching the description given, they then asked the driver for proof of ownership of the vehicle, which he did not have.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to the Katlehong Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the initial investigation it was discovered that the vehicle had been reported stolen in Benoni, in November last year,\u201d said Ndobe.<\/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\/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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/127454\/couple-hijacked-in-driveway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Couple hijacked in driveway<\/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='b437e2670e9d83334ae8d54d03203a1a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katlehong police receive tip-off from community about the sighting of an alleged stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":144075,"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-144074","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\/144074","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=144074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}