{"id":145625,"date":"2017-03-03T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145625\/man-arrested-in-connection-with-august-2016-murder\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T13:20:09","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-with-august-2016-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/03\/man-arrested-in-connection-with-august-2016-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in connection with August 2016 murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old man was arrested recently by the Primrose police in connection with an August 2016 stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident took place in the Makause informal settlement in August last year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt is reported that the accused stabbed the victim with a sharp object,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to hospital, where he was treated for his injuries; however, he died later.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOfficers have been searching for the suspect since the victim\u2019s death and were able to recently trace and arrest him,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained at the Primrose Police Station, and appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, where his case was postponed for a bail application.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145813\/couple-attacked-in-their-home-husband-shot\/\">Couple attacked in their Norton Small Farms home, husband shot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145610\/men-allegedly-pretending-to-be-fumigators-robbing-houses\/\">Men allegedly pretending to be fumigators, robbing houses in Primrose<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145656\/wadeville-business-robbery-leaves-one-dead-others-traumatised-2\/\">Update: Employee shot dead, R6-million worth of nickel stolen in Wadeville business robbery<\/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='47b92dee8f828fbdb557a4f12308816f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police nab man who, in August 2016, allegedly stabbed a man who later died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":145626,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1563,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-145625","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-murder","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","murder","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145625","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=145625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}