{"id":148891,"date":"2017-04-12T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148891\/elsburg-police-crack-down-on-drugs-in-the-area\/"},"modified":"2017-04-12T18:57:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:57:36","slug":"elsburg-police-crack-down-on-drugs-in-the-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/12\/elsburg-police-crack-down-on-drugs-in-the-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Elsburg police crack down on drugs in the area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just after midnight last Thursday, police officers from the Ekurhuleni West cluster were given information about a house being used as a base to sell drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The tip-off came from an informant of one of the police officers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The officers acted on the information later that day and went to the address in Kruger Street, Elsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival, they found a 26-year-old woman alone in the house.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe members searched the house and found seven packets of a white substance, suspected to be drugs,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, the communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>The packets weighed 12 grams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe woman was arrested and detained at the Elsburg Police Station pending her appearance in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court on a charge of dealing in drugs,\u201d said Phooko.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148806\/coral-street-shooting-leaves-one-dead-and-two-injured\/\">Coral Street shooting leaves one dead and two injured<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148649\/woman-robbed-at-knife-point\/\">Woman robbed at knife-point<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='7565888ea5829b4182f49b156a3aa238'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old woman was arrested in Elsburg for alleged drug dealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":148984,"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":[989,1112,1318,1509,979,969,2734,999,998],"class_list":["post-148891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","drugs","elsburg","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148891","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=148891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}