{"id":148979,"date":"2017-04-13T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148979\/stolen-vehicle-discovered-in-marathon\/"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T08:56:24","slug":"stolen-vehicle-discovered-in-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2017\/04\/13\/stolen-vehicle-discovered-in-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen vehicle discovered in Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in the Marathon informal settlement recently, serving a protection order, an officer from Primrose police noticed a suspicious vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He approached the vehicle, which had three occupants, but before he could reach it the driver jumped out and ran away.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe officer asked the passengers, aged 22 and 25, why the driver had fled the scene and they claimed they did not know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey only knew that he had recently purchased the vehicle,\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 vehicle\u2019s registration was investigated and it was discovered that the vehicle had been hijacked in Germiston, a month before.<\/p>\n<p>A case had been opened with the Germiston police.<\/p>\n<p>The two men were arrested and charged with possession of a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>They were detained at the Primrose Police Station and 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\/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\/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<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='70507980e3f68c4b3332f7503031f14a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver flees alleged stolen vehicle when approached by police in the Marathon informal settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":148980,"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-148979","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\/148979","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=148979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}