{"id":54299,"date":"2014-03-03T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/54299\/couple-arrested-for-damage-to-propertyornasty-surprise-for-home-owner\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T09:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:07:12","slug":"couple-arrested-for-damage-to-propertyornasty-surprise-for-home-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/03\/03\/couple-arrested-for-damage-to-propertyornasty-surprise-for-home-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasty surprise for home owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple was arrested by the Primrose police, last Tuesday, on charges of theft and malicious damage to property.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made after a man came to the Primrose Police Station to open a case against the couple.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man explained to officers that he had asked the couple to take care of his house while he and his wife were on holiday in India.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their return, he found that most of his belongings were either broken or missing.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When he asked where his belongings were, the couple said they had lent the missing items to friends.<\/p>\n<p>No explanation was given about the damages to the home, which totalled R15 496.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested the couple and brought the pair to the Primrose Police Station to await their appearance in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/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='63e508162f005a00ca1574c98280afbf'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple arrested for damage to property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":54300,"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":[1041,8297,989,2761,1012,1003,979,2730,2187,999,1000,1480,998,1137],"class_list":["post-54299","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-damage-to-property","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-malicious-damage-to-property","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-saps","tag-theft"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","damage to property","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","malicious damage to property","police","primrose","Primrose police","SAPS","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54299","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=54299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}