{"id":54569,"date":"2014-03-11T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/54569\/two-men-nabbed-for-theftormen-arrested-on-charges-of-theft\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T07:25:09","slug":"two-men-nabbed-for-theftormen-arrested-on-charges-of-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/03\/11\/two-men-nabbed-for-theftormen-arrested-on-charges-of-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men nabbed for theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested two men, in connection with two separate incidents of theft.<\/p>\n<p>The men, aged 20 and 22, were arrested in the Delport informal settlement and Makause informal settlement, respectively.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In the first incident officers responded to a call from a man claiming his 22-year-old friend had just stolen his cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded immediately and the man was arrested.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The second crime took place in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Officers received a report from a man claiming that he was asleep at home when he heard a noise in his garden.<\/p>\n<p>When he went to went to investigate the noise he saw a man running away from his car.<\/p>\n<p>When he went to see if anything had been taken he found that his car&#8217;s battery had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Officers, using the victim&#8217;s description of the man, were able to track him down and arrest him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once officers had arrested the man it was discovered that he was linked to several other housebreakings in the area,&#8221; said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/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='4f18f486a356810b3ef8008243bcba7a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men arrested on charges of theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":54570,"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":[1535,989,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1137],"class_list":["post-54569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrest","tag-crime","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps","tag-theft"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrest","crime","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569","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=54569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}