{"id":45070,"date":"2013-10-01T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/45070\/man-arrested-in-malvern-eastor-man-arrested-for-possession-of-an-unlicenced-firearm-and-live-ammunition\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:03:50","slug":"man-arrested-in-malvern-eastor-man-arrested-for-possession-of-an-unlicenced-firearm-and-live-ammunition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/10\/01\/man-arrested-in-malvern-eastor-man-arrested-for-possession-of-an-unlicenced-firearm-and-live-ammunition\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Malvern East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police recently arrested a 40-year-old man on charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and live ammunition, and of threatening a person with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested in Stanhope Road in Malvern East.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers were on their normal patrol route in Primrose, when they received a report from a complainant that he was being threatened by a man with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant alleged that the 40-year-old man had pointed a firearm at him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The SAPS rushed to the scene where the complainant pointed out a man who had been overpowered by members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>When the officers questioned the man, he was unable to produce a licence for the firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The SAPS then arrested him and confiscated the firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police, said: &#8220;On behalf of the station management, I would like to thank the members of the community who helped the victim to overpower the suspect and kept him under control until the police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They never assaulted the accused and this is an indication that our community is really helping the police to fight crime in the area.&#8221;<\/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='d166d6ef19f213edeece16fd1f0db8be'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for possession of an unlicenced firearm and live ammunition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":45071,"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":[1041,1012,1003,979,999,1000,997,998],"class_list":["post-45070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45070","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=45070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}