{"id":52244,"date":"2014-01-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/52244\/man-tries-to-bribe-cops\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T11:06:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T09:06:29","slug":"man-tries-to-bribe-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/01\/31\/man-tries-to-bribe-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Man tries to bribe cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was nabbed by the Germiston SAPS recently, while they were out doing routine patrols.<\/p>\n<p>On January 16, at 11am, the Germiston police officers noticed a suspicious-looking man in the city.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They searched him and discovered an unlicensed firearm, with six rounds of ammunition, in his possession.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old man could not produce his firearm licence and could not give the police a valid explanation of where he obtained the firearm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was taken to the Germiston Police Station and, upon arrival, produced R200 in cash to try to bribe the police officers.<\/p>\n<p>The man was charged with being in possession of an unlicensed firearm, as well as bribery.<\/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='885fa5d204701e6e00b4252f7fa98a52'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being arrested, a man thought he could bribe the police to let him go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":52245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,509,2],"tags":[1445,989,979,1131,1032,2734,999,998,2755],"class_list":["post-52244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-note","category-news-headlines","tag-bribery","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-cbd","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-unlicensed-firearm"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["bribery","crime","germiston","Germiston CBD","germiston saps","melissa hart","police","SAPS","unlicensed firearm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52244","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=52244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}