{"id":148198,"date":"2017-04-03T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148198\/man-allegedly-assaulted-during-theft\/"},"modified":"2017-04-03T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:56:32","slug":"man-allegedly-assaulted-during-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/03\/man-allegedly-assaulted-during-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly assaulted during theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking home in the Zuma Section of Katlehong recently a man was allegedly assaulted and robbed by four men.<\/p>\n<p>The victim told police that the men, aged between 18 and 25 years old, assaulted him with their open hands before searching him and taking his cellphone.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>While investigating the incident officers from the Katlehong Police Station received information from the community on the whereabouts of the four men accused of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice travelled to the address given where they found the four men and arrested them,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, of the Ekurhuleni West cluster.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The men were charged with theft and held at the Katlehong Police Station pending their appearance in the Palm Ridge Magistrate\u2019s Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147450\/firearm-linked-to-murder\/\">Firearm linked to murder<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147004\/man-sustains-serious-injuries-in-robbery\/\">Man sustains serious injuries in robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147431\/community-must-report-altercations-where-empd-officers-are-involved\/\">Community must report altercations where EMPD officers are involved<\/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='0d6941790100e76e3c8decb309f8cbff'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men allegedly assaulted a man in the Zuma Section of Katlehong before stealing his cellphone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":146907,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,1015,1034,3034,1314,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-148198","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-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-police-station","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","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","katlehong","katlehong police","Katlehong Police Station","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148198","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=148198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}