{"id":147009,"date":"2017-03-19T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147009\/victim-claims-attack-by-five\/"},"modified":"2017-03-19T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:14:16","slug":"victim-claims-attack-by-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/03\/19\/victim-claims-attack-by-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim claims attack by five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old man was recently arrested by the Primrose police on a charge of common robbery.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of five men who allegedly assaulted and robbed a man in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant told officers that he was on his way home when he saw a woman who owed him money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe decided to ask her for the money and alleged that she began screaming when he tried to speak to her, which drew the attention of five men standing close by,\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>The men allegedly surrounded him and started to assault him.<\/p>\n<p>During the assault he was stabbed in the upper body, and the men also allegedly robbed him of his cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim was able to describe one of the assailants to officers and they traced and arrested him,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>He was held at the Primrose Police Station pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146441\/be-alert-and-aware-at-all-times-encourage-police\/\">Be alert and aware at all times, encourage police<\/a><\/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<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='a842be99548272c7aa61e14afa03665d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was allegedly attacked and robbed by five men in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":147010,"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-147009","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\/147009","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=147009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}