{"id":54566,"date":"2014-03-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/54566\/petrol-attendant-assaultedorpetrol-attendant-roughed-up-by-men\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T09:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T07:29:51","slug":"petrol-attendant-assaultedorpetrol-attendant-roughed-up-by-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/03\/11\/petrol-attendant-assaultedorpetrol-attendant-roughed-up-by-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol attendant assaulted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through the joint efforts of the Primrose police and EMPD, three men, aged between 20 and 38 were arrested for the assault of a petrol attendant.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place at a local petrol station, when three men demanded that a petrol attendant take them to the station&#8217;s ATM to draw money.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When he refused, as he was still busy with a customer, they began to push him around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He attempted to stop the men, but they became more violent and began to punch him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It was then that passing EMPD officers stopped to break up the fight,&#8221; said Sgt Style Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The EMPD officers were able to arrest two of the three suspects, while the third, who ran from the scene, was trapped by Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>All three were taken to the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The men appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where two of them were detained pending their trial, and the third was released on a warning.<\/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='9c6b11137575ca10aaf17c457496413b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petrol attendant roughed up by men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":54974,"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":[1041,1397,989,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-54566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-assault","tag-crime","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","assault","crime","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\/54566","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=54566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}