{"id":60449,"date":"2014-05-27T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/60449\/two-arrested-for-selling-liquor-without-a-licence\/"},"modified":"2014-05-27T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T06:43:26","slug":"two-arrested-for-selling-liquor-without-a-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/05\/27\/two-arrested-for-selling-liquor-without-a-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested for selling liquor without a licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police arrested a woman and a man for selling liquor without a licence, in two separate incidents during a crime prevention operation, in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are having a lot of problems with people selling liquor without a licence,&#8221; said communications officer for the Primrose police Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This problem is greatest in our informal settlements and we will, therefore, be conducting more operations of this nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first arrest was made when officers noticed a large group of people gathered at what appeared to be a local tavern.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They approached the building and asked to speak to the owner.<\/p>\n<p>During questioning police discovered that the owner did not have a licence to sell liquor and he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The second arrest was made when officers noticed a woman selling liquor from her home.<\/p>\n<p>She was asked to produce a licence and, when she failed to do so, she was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Both the accused appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court and were released after paying an admission of guilt fines.<\/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='dfb7acb95bc071ce5fe5bd5fbd4a9313'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police crack down on liquor licences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":60671,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,2878],"class_list":["post-60449","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-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps","tag-selling-liquor-without-a-licence"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","selling liquor without a licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60449","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=60449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}