{"id":145950,"date":"2017-03-03T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/145950\/makause-man-found-with-illegal-firearm\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T07:44:18","slug":"makause-man-found-with-illegal-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/03\/makause-man-found-with-illegal-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"Makause man found with illegal firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After receiving a tip-off from community members in the Makause informal settlement, recently, about a man harassing people with a firearm, Primrose police rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived they quickly located a 30-year-old man who fitted the description given by the informants.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe man was searched and police found a firearm and five rounds of ammunition in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was unable to produce a licence for the firearm,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station where he was formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>The Primrose police\u2019s station commander, Col Albertina Vesi, thanked the members of the community for coming forward with the information and the officers for responding timeously before the situation escalated.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court where his case was postponed for a bail application.<\/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<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='f6d1c96d908fef72f58e3bf064c4423a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested after being found with an unlicensed firearm and ammunition in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":145951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,509,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-145950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-note","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\/145950","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=145950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}