{"id":148649,"date":"2017-04-08T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148649\/woman-robbed-at-knife-point\/"},"modified":"2017-04-08T06:01:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T04:01:38","slug":"woman-robbed-at-knife-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/08\/woman-robbed-at-knife-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman robbed at knife-point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While walking home, with her young brother in a pram, a young woman was allegedly robbed at knife-point.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly took place in Churchill Avenue, Primrose, on March 29.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe victim told police that when she arrived home and was opening her gate, she was approached by an unknown man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe allegedly ordered her to keep quiet, threatening to kill her if she didn\u2019t,\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>He took her cellphone and a tablet and ran away.<\/p>\n<p>A passing truck driver, having witnessed the incident, chased after the suspect and was able to corner him.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene and the 32-year-old man was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court on a charge of armed robbery 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='b0d8a423477ca5c03c903e5c25d8e3f9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trucker assists in the arrest of a thief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":140778,"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-148649","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\/148649","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=148649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}