{"id":51716,"date":"2014-01-14T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/51716\/two-nabbed-for-armed-robberyormen-arrested-for-pretoria-road-robbery\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T07:45:07","slug":"two-nabbed-for-armed-robberyormen-arrested-for-pretoria-road-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/01\/14\/two-nabbed-for-armed-robberyormen-arrested-for-pretoria-road-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Two nabbed for armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose SAPS recently arrested two men, aged 26 and 28, in connection with an armed robbery that took place in Pretoria Road, Primrose.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made after the victim of the robbery came to the Primrose Police Station to lay charges against his attackers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He explained to officers that he had been walking to the Total garage with a friend.<\/p>\n<p>During the walk he felt the urge to relieve himself, so he went to the far side of the road to do so.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It was then that he was approached by two men.<\/p>\n<p>One of the men grabbed him from behind and, when he tried to fight back, the second man pulled out a knife while the first pulled out a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>They took the victim&#8217;s backpack, which contained R500, his driver&#8217;s licence, ID book and two cellphones.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was able to describe his attackers to officers, as he has seen them before in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The police were able to trace the men and arrest them.<\/p>\n<p>They appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where the case was postponed without bail, for further investigation.<\/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='dcbe0f23081cb4b6ce27bf885cfdc0a8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men arrested for Pretoria Road robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":51717,"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":[989,979,999,1000,997,1572,998],"class_list":["post-51716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-robbery","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","robbery","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51716","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=51716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}