{"id":56430,"date":"2014-04-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/56430\/illegal-miners-are-arrested-4\/"},"modified":"2014-04-01T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T07:33:57","slug":"illegal-miners-are-arrested-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/04\/01\/illegal-miners-are-arrested-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal miners are arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, March 27, the Germiston SAPS hosted an operation.<\/p>\n<p>This was a combined effort of the Germiston SAPS, EMPD, the Department of Home Affairs, Emergency Services, SAPS Organised Crime Unit, TRT Unit, Elsburg SAPS and the Johannesburg SAPS K9 Dog Unit.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The main objective of the operation was to arrest a number of illegal miners found in Germiston West.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, at the scene where the miners had last been seen, members acted quickly to surround the area, to prevent the miners from running away.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In total, 24 miners were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven of them were charged with possession of gold concentrate, under the Illegal Mining Act.<\/p>\n<p>The other 13 were charged by the Department of Home Affairs and detained at the Germiston Police Station, as they are illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the implements and generators found at the scene were confiscated and brought to Germiston Police Station and handed in as exhibits,&#8221; said WO Andr\u00e9 de Jager, spokesperson for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56432\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/13GCNCRIMEILLEGALLH2_5389721391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56432\" alt=\"The illegal miners' generators were found and confiscated during a recent operation. All confiscated items were transported to the Germiston Police Station, as evidence.\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/13GCNCRIMEILLEGALLH2_5389721391-423x317.jpg\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/13GCNCRIMEILLEGALLH2_5389721391-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/13GCNCRIMEILLEGALLH2_5389721391-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2014\/04\/13GCNCRIMEILLEGALLH2_5389721391.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The illegal miners&#8217; generators were found and confiscated during a recent operation. All confiscated items were transported to the Germiston Police Station, as evidence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;This operation was executed after a lengthy period of investigation and information-gathering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Operation was a success and Brigadier Samuel Thambo, station commander of the Germiston SAPS, congratulated all who played a role in the operation.&#8221;<\/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='68796dfc03e9ecc8cdd3199fb34fa5fd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three illegal miner arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":56435,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,979,1031,1032,1358,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-56430","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-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-police","tag-germiston-saps","tag-illegal-miners","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","germiston police","germiston saps","illegal miners","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56430","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=56430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}