{"id":48840,"date":"2013-11-19T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/48840\/man-found-with-unlicensed-firearmorprimrose-police-discover-unlicensed-firearm\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T08:01:27","slug":"man-found-with-unlicensed-firearmorprimrose-police-discover-unlicensed-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/11\/19\/man-found-with-unlicensed-firearmorprimrose-police-discover-unlicensed-firearm\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found with unlicensed firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was recently arrested by the Primrose police for possession of an unlicensed firearm and live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old suspect was arrested during a patrol along Lower Main Reef Road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers noticed two men appear out of a bushy area and stopped to question and search them.<\/p>\n<p>They then discovered that one of the men had a .38 special revolver, with its serial number filed off, and five rounds of live ammunition.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The officers asked to see the licence for the firearm, which the man was unable to provide.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where the case was postponed for a bail application.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Primrose Police Station&#8217;s management complimented the officers on their good work; arrests like these will send a message to others who possess unlicensed firearms,&#8221; said Const Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/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='dcda4faf1ee68fd824f9bdefc41b8e19'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police discover unlicensed firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48841,"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":[1041,989,1012,1003,979,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-48840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","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","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840","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=48840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}