{"id":55007,"date":"2014-03-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/55007\/business-robbery-spree-haltedorfive-men-arrested-for-suspected-stolen-goodsor\/"},"modified":"2014-03-17T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T09:55:49","slug":"business-robbery-spree-haltedorfive-men-arrested-for-suspected-stolen-goodsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/03\/17\/business-robbery-spree-haltedorfive-men-arrested-for-suspected-stolen-goodsor\/","title":{"rendered":"Business robbery spree halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of five men, using a grey Toyota Venture, notorious for targeting Pakistani-owned &#8220;spaza&#8221; shops and other businesses in Kathorus area, were arrested in Katlehong, by the Ekurhuleni Metro Police, recently.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided by members of the community was followed up by the Metro Police, who started searching for the vehicle and the suspects.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The Metro Police closed in on the vehicle when it was sighted in Katlehong.<\/p>\n<p>After a thorough search of the vehicle, a laptop (that was recently stolen from a shop in Katlehong) and a number of cellphones were recovered.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the suspects showed the Metro Police their &#8220;safe house&#8221;, where later that day two unlicensed firearms were found and confiscated by the metro.<\/p>\n<p>All five suspects were detained at the Katlehong North Police Station, on charges of possession of suspected stolen goods, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight other armed business robberies that were committed recently, in the Kathorus area, have been linked to the five suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The five suspects, aged between 25 and 30, appeared in the Palm Ridge 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='d8cb41c75b383c287a7db7588410c8c8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five men arrested for suspected stolen goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":55008,"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":[3096,2805,2810,989,1003,3097,979,3098,2857,999,2749,2755],"class_list":["post-55007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-armed-business-robbery","tag-armed-robbery","tag-business-robbery","tag-crime","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-ekurhuleni-metro-police","tag-germiston","tag-katlehong-north-police-station","tag-palm-ridge-magistrates-court","tag-police","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-unlicensed-firearm"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["Armed Business Robbery","armed robbery","business robbery","crime","Ekurhuleni","ekurhuleni metro police","germiston","Katlehong North Police Station","palm ridge magistrates court","police","Puleng Sekabate","unlicensed firearm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007","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=55007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}