{"id":146424,"date":"2017-03-10T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146424\/nabbed-for-r14k-suspected-stolen-copper-cable\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T16:25:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T14:25:26","slug":"nabbed-for-r14k-suspected-stolen-copper-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/10\/nabbed-for-r14k-suspected-stolen-copper-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabbed for R14k suspected stolen copper cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on patrol in Main Reef Road recently, officers from the Primrose Police Station noticed a suspicious-looking vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey pulled the driver of the vehicle over and asked the 50-year-old male driver if they could search the vehicle, and he agreed,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During the search police found R14 000 worth of copper cable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man was questioned as to where the copper had come from and if he had proof of ownership for the copper,\u201d said Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When he was unable to answer the officers\u2019 questions or give them proof of ownership, he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court, on a charge of possession of suspected stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>His case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146047\/elderly-woman-found-dead-in-katlehong\/\">Elderly woman found dead in Katlehong<\/a><\/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='4503003de01b521623253215f90bfe19'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 50-year-old man was apprehended by the Primrose police for possession of suspected stolen property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":146425,"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-146424","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\/146424","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=146424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}