{"id":59595,"date":"2014-05-09T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/59595\/empd-officers-nab-drug-dealers\/"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T08:01:22","slug":"empd-officers-nab-drug-dealers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/09\/empd-officers-nab-drug-dealers\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD officers nab drug dealers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD Germiston Crime Prevention Unit members patrolling in Klopper Park, on May 3, arrested two men and confiscated drugs in their possession.<\/p>\n<p>The officers spotted a man in a parked red VW Golf acting suspiciously.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They confronted him and, upon searching his vehicle, came across 15 packets of cocaine and eight packets of special cocaine estimated to be worth R15 000 on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>The Metro Police officers then took the man to his flat, nearby in Skuda Street, where a friend of his was found in possession of three rocks of cocaine and one packet of crystal meth, valued at about R500.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The two men, who are in their early 30s, were taken to the Bedfordview Police Station and charged with possession of and dealing in illicit substances.<\/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='bfeb917a8d1d26766aba9379aecc9614'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD officers get drugs off the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":59596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[989,1112,988,979,3432,2734,990],"class_list":["post-59595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-drugs","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-klopper-park","tag-melissa-hart","tag-metro-police"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","drugs","empd","germiston","klopper park","melissa hart","metro police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59595","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=59595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}