{"id":61422,"date":"2014-06-06T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/61422\/alleged-sugar-thief-nabbed\/"},"modified":"2014-06-06T09:32:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T07:32:14","slug":"alleged-sugar-thief-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/06\/06\/alleged-sugar-thief-nabbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged sugar thief nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers from the Germiston Crime Intelligence Unit received information, last Tuesday, about a truck that was being offloaded at a storage facility in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their arrival they found that 34 pallets of Salati sugar had been offloaded.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A Chinese national man was arrested as he was in the storage facility when the police officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect had all the documents relating to the delivery with him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>After further investigation it was discovered that the goods came from a company in Malelaan, Mpumalanga, and were supposed to be delivered to a company in Krugersdorp.<\/p>\n<p>The driver had driven the truck away before the police officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect, aged 36, was arrested and detained at the Germiston Police Station, and was due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court on a charge of possession of suspected stolen goods.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver is still at large, but he will be arrested soon,&#8221; said WO Andr\u00e9 de Jager, the spokesman for the Germiston SAPS.<\/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='b72423cd8d54a5779a6407e8da62ea64'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sweet hoard for thieves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":61423,"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":[989,979,1032,2734,999,998,2215],"class_list":["post-61422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-stolen-property"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","germiston saps","melissa hart","police","SAPS","stolen property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61422","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=61422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}