{"id":148648,"date":"2017-04-10T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148648\/wallet-stolen-at-gunpoint\/"},"modified":"2017-04-10T19:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:46:55","slug":"wallet-stolen-at-gunpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/10\/wallet-stolen-at-gunpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallet stolen at gunpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man claimed he was recently robbed at gunpoint at the corner of Rietfontein and Zinia roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant told officers that he went to collect money, which he placed in his wallet, and was then waiting for a friend to pick him up.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhile waiting, he was approached by an unknown man,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect allegedly threatened the man with a firearm and demanded his wallet.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as he had the wallet the suspect escaped on foot,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to arrest the 20-year-old man allegedly responsible for the crime and he was taken to the Primrose Police Station where he was formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148680\/crime-remains-a-problem-in-makause\/\">Crime remains a problem in Makause<\/a><\/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<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='076140f8eccbc55ffcdfa7c71adad919'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested a 20-year-old man after he allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint.<\/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":[1041,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-148648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","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","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\/148648","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=148648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148648\/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=148648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}