{"id":47958,"date":"2013-11-08T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/47958\/information-leads-to-arrestorman-arrested-for-carrying-a-firearm-without-a-licence\/"},"modified":"2013-11-08T09:41:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:41:02","slug":"information-leads-to-arrestorman-arrested-for-carrying-a-firearm-without-a-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/11\/08\/information-leads-to-arrestorman-arrested-for-carrying-a-firearm-without-a-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Information leads to arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from the Germiston SAPS arrested a man on October 29, for being in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving the information, the officers went to Plantation Road, in the Germiston CBD, and found the man.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>After searching him, they discovered a firearm in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged he is working for a security company and that the owner issued him with the weapon.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The firearm was licensed and the owner was traced and a Section 102 (see if a person is fit to possess a firearm) investigation was opened against the owner, at the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, aged 37, was arrested for possession of a firearm without a licence and detained at the Germiston Police Station.<\/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='1204aa07efb15ce7cbe8a5a185a41b21'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for carrying a firearm without a licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[2136,979,1131,999,2137,998],"class_list":["post-47958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime-germiston-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-cbd","tag-police","tag-possession-of-firearm","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime germiston saps","germiston","Germiston CBD","police","possession of firearm","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47958","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=47958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}