{"id":64990,"date":"2014-07-25T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/64990\/man-caught-running-down-rietfintein-road-with-a-welding-machine-in-his-hand\/"},"modified":"2014-07-25T08:58:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T06:58:51","slug":"man-caught-running-down-rietfintein-road-with-a-welding-machine-in-his-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/25\/man-caught-running-down-rietfintein-road-with-a-welding-machine-in-his-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Man caught running down Rietfintein Road with a welding machine in his hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old man was arrested by the Primrose police on Monday, July 21.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made in Rietfontein Road, after officers patrolling the area noticed a man running along the road with a welding machine in his possession.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers pursued him and, after a brief chase, cornered him.<\/p>\n<p>The officers searched the man and found not only the welding machine in his possession, but also a packet of blind rivets.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When he could not give the officers a clear answer as to where he had obtained the items, the man was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station, where he was formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The station commander and his management team thank the officers for being so observant,&#8221; said Sgt Styles Maome.<\/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='f6065e827c76fbf636ac45ade12edf7f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for possession of suspected stolen property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":64991,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,2730,999,2873,4090,1000,1480,997,998,1137],"class_list":["post-64990","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-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-possession-of-suspected-stolen-goods","tag-possession-of-suspected-stolen-property","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","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Leigh Hodgson","police","possession of suspected stolen goods","possession of suspected stolen property","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990","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=64990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}