{"id":53838,"date":"2014-02-20T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/53838\/empd-nab-reckless-driverorman-caught-driving-under-the-influence\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T11:06:06","slug":"empd-nab-reckless-driverorman-caught-driving-under-the-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/02\/20\/empd-nab-reckless-driverorman-caught-driving-under-the-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD nab reckless driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent stop-and-search operation, in Main Reef Road, the EMPD arrested a 42-year-old man for driving under the influence of liquor, and reckless and negligent driving.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made when officers noticed someone driving his vehicle recklessly.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The vehicle was pulled over, and the driver was asked to exit it.<\/p>\n<p>The driver attempted to climb out of the vehicle, but was unable to, as he was so drunk that he struggled to stand.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to work together with other law enforcement agencies to ensure that the crime in Primrose is stamped out,&#8221; said communications officer Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where his case was postponed for trail.<\/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='8be548de9b51485bac4f9ec4c3bea3f1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man caught driving under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":53839,"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":[1041,8297,989,1140,1914,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-53838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-driving-under-the-influence-of-alcohol","tag-drunken-driving","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","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","community","crime","driving under the influence of alcohol","drunken driving","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53838","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=53838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}