{"id":62225,"date":"2014-06-18T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/62225\/man-pretends-to-be-officer-and-robs-man\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T12:49:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T10:49:25","slug":"man-pretends-to-be-officer-and-robs-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/06\/18\/man-pretends-to-be-officer-and-robs-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pretends to be police officer and robs man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, June 9, Primrose police arrested a 25-year-old man for armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made when the victim of the crime visited the Primrose Police Station, to open a formal case against the accused.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He explained to officers that he had been walking in Zenia Road when he was approached by the man, who claimed to be an officer from the Kempton Park SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>He asked to search the man.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Feeling uneasy the man asked to see the &#8220;officer&#8217;s&#8221; identification documents.<\/p>\n<p>At this the accused became angry, pulled out a handgun and ordered the man onto the floor.<\/p>\n<p>He then searched the victim and took R600.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to find the suspect through an undercover operation and he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court where his case 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='6711c58f400df4eeff993a1605bc61eb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretending to be a cop, a man commits armed robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":62226,"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":[2805,989,979,2730,999,1000,997,998],"class_list":["post-62225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-armed-robbery","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["armed robbery","crime","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62225","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=62225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}