{"id":64349,"date":"2014-07-22T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/64349\/man-arrested-while-trying-to-steal-copper-cable\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T06:43:00","slug":"man-arrested-while-trying-to-steal-copper-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/22\/man-arrested-while-trying-to-steal-copper-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested while trying to steal copper cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested a 25-year-old man, following his attempts to steal a length of copper cable.<\/p>\n<p>The man was caught trying to steal the cable near the Delport informal settlement, by a patrolling security guard.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The security guard noticed the man digging and approached him,&#8221; explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he reached the suspect he saw that he had dug up a length of copper cable.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He arrested the man and called the Primrose police to come and collect him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived on scene and transported the man to the Primrose Police Station, where he was formally charged.<\/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='220b7566b2787ebdd790f44498d113f8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested when caught trying to steal copper cable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":64350,"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":[1041,3037,8297,1772,2610,989,1012,1003,1106,979,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1137],"class_list":["post-64349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-attempted-theft","tag-community-2","tag-copper-cable","tag-copper-cable-theft","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps","tag-theft"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","attempted theft","community","copper cable","copper cable theft","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64349","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=64349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}