{"id":60296,"date":"2014-05-21T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/60296\/man-arrested-for-common-assault\/"},"modified":"2014-05-21T09:34:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:34:30","slug":"man-arrested-for-common-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/21\/man-arrested-for-common-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for common assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andre de Jager, the spokesperson for the Germiston SAPS, spoke to the GCN following reports of a kidnapping that had taken place at Afrikaanse Hoerskool Germiston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spoke to the principal of the school, Retha du Toit, and she briefly informed me of what transpired that day, at the school,&#8221; he said.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Officers were on patrol in Sinclaire Street, where they arrested a 26-year-old man on charges of common assault.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was after he had slapped the victim with an open hand.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The accused was detained at the Germiston Police Station and appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court on Thursday, May 15.<\/p>\n<p>The case was postponed to May 22.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No kidnapping case was opened with the Germiston SAPS, as there was no evidence pointing to a kidnapping incident,&#8221; added de Jager.<\/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='d8a7778ec744ae8e601cb38fff693c81'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-six year old man arrested for assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":59741,"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":[1041,2580,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,1031,1032,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-60296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-common-assault","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-police","tag-germiston-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","common assault","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston police","germiston saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60296","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=60296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}