{"id":179731,"date":"2018-06-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/179731\/man-allegedly-robbed-after-disembarking-taxi\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T15:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T13:18:52","slug":"man-allegedly-robbed-after-disembarking-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2018\/06\/03\/man-allegedly-robbed-after-disembarking-taxi\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly robbed after disembarking taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested two men, aged 21 and 23 respectively, for armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made at the Makause informal settlement, last Wednesday, after the victim opened a case at the Primrose Police Station.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h4>ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/179608\/avoid-sim-card-fraud-and-phishing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avoid SIM card fraud and phishing<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant alleged that he was heading towards Primrose in a taxi, from Germiston, with the intent to buy stock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he disembarked from the taxi he was approached by two men, one who was allegedly armed with a firearm and the other a knife,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h4>ALSO READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/179186\/aware-spike-crimes-deception\/\" target=\"_blank\">Be aware of the spike in crimes of deception<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The accused, with the firearm, threatened him with it and ordered him to keep quiet while searching him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took his cellphone, airtime and R380 in cash,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim was able to describe the men to officers as he recognised them as they often used to stand near his shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were soon found and arrested and were taken to the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>They will appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/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='6ac113e2b5a39f91942ac4f99b5904b5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police apprehended two suspects for armed robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":179816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Leigh Hodgson","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,2362],"class_list":["post-179731","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","tag-south-africa"],"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","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179731","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=179731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}