{"id":145610,"date":"2017-02-28T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145610\/men-allegedly-pretending-to-be-fumigators-robbing-houses\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:49:58","slug":"men-allegedly-pretending-to-be-fumigators-robbing-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/28\/men-allegedly-pretending-to-be-fumigators-robbing-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Men allegedly pretending to be fumigators, robbing houses in Primrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Wychwood and Malvern East are warned to be on high alert as police have identified a new house robbery modus operandi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received reports of two men who are allegedly robbing homes by posing as fumigators.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is reported that the men will tell homeowners that they are there to get rid of rats before spraying a gas that knocks the owners unconscious,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The men will then allegedly make off with goods, before the victims wake up.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOur community should be extra careful about letting strangers into their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnow the person you are letting in &#8211; don\u2019t just open the door,\u201d encouraged Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The community is encouraged to report any suspicious people or activities to the patrol vehicles by calling 071 675 6864\/5\/6\/7\/8\/9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145540\/man-nabbed-for-malicious-damage-to-property\/\">Man nabbed for malicious damage to property<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145247\/four-nabbed-for-speeding-on-n3-highway\/\">Four nabbed for speeding on N3 highway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145539\/stop-and-search-yields-results-10\/\">Stop-and-search yields results<\/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='ec71e71a6a46ab2d351378e9be681401'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police warn community of alleged house robbers\u2019 modus operandi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":108309,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1323],"class_list":["post-145610","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","tag-warning"],"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","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145610","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=145610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}