{"id":57137,"date":"2014-04-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/57137\/three-illegal-miners-found-in-field\/"},"modified":"2014-04-09T10:35:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T08:35:03","slug":"three-illegal-miners-found-in-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/04\/09\/three-illegal-miners-found-in-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Three illegal miners found in field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Primrose police recently arrested three men, aged between 18 and 50 years, on charges of illegal mining.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made during an operation mounted by the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;One of our officers heard voices coming from a near-by field and went to investigate,&#8221; said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He found three men digging in the field.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;When he asked what they were doing or if they had permission to be in the field they could not answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He informed the men that he was arresting them for illegal mining, as part of the operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying our utmost to discourage illegal mining in our area, as it is too dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The three men appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where the matter was postponed for trial.<\/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='50cb3aa04fcde6eb1df8c0ff0b357fd4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer discovers illegal miners in field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":57138,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,979,1358,1357,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-57137","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-illegal-miners","tag-illegal-mining","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","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","illegal miners","illegal mining","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\/57137","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=57137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}