{"id":146749,"date":"2017-03-16T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146749\/stop-and-search-a-drugs-arrest\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T06:53:23","slug":"stop-and-search-a-drugs-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/16\/stop-and-search-a-drugs-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops allegedly find drugs in man\u2019s pocket in Tedstoneville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a stop-and-search operation, last Wednesday, in Tedstoneville, a man was arrested for being in possession of drugs and dagga.<\/p>\n<p>The Elsburg SAPS Task Team was busy with the operation in Ibis Street when they noticed a suspicious man.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Due to the high volume of crime in the area they stopped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey searched the man and found drugs and dagga in his pocket,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey took him to the post office and weighed the drugs, which amounted to six grams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old man was arrested and detained at the Elsburg Police Station pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court on a charge of possession of drugs and dagga.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146439\/police-find-drugs-in-womans-handbag\/\">Police find drugs in woman\u2019s handbag<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146427\/men-found-with-ivory-after-tip-off\/\">Men found with ivory after tip-off<\/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='4c6bcf9455953161752806b0f3c8bb58'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man was arrested by the Elsburg SAPS for allegedly being in possession of drugs and dagga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":146896,"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":[989,1111,1112,1509,979,969,2734,999,998,1838],"class_list":["post-146749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-dagga","tag-drugs","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-tedstoneville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","dagga","drugs","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS","tedstoneville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146749","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=146749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}