{"id":66228,"date":"2014-08-12T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66228\/man-nabbed-with-stolen-copper\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T07:26:15","slug":"man-nabbed-with-stolen-copper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/12\/man-nabbed-with-stolen-copper\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper worth R13 000 recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers from Elsburg recently set up vehicle checkpoints at scrap metal dealers, in Wadeville.<\/p>\n<p>They did this after receiving a tip-off from a concerned member of the public.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Upon searching one of the suspected vehicles, they discovered copper, believed to be stolen.<\/p>\n<p>The bakkie the officers searched was from Marble Hall and the driver could not produce receipts for the copper or documentation detailing to who it belonged.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The police questioned him about why he had come so far to sell the copper and he could not give them a satisfactory reason,&#8221; said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>The copper weighed 2 540kg and is worth R13 000.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, aged 51, was arrested.<\/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='9c8829fdb4d307688931e738a0d4caa6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man nabbed with stolen copper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":66324,"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":[4280,989,1509,979,4281,2734,999,998,1267],"class_list":["post-66228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-copper","tag-crime","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-cty-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["copper","crime","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston cty news","melissa hart","police","SAPS","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66228","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=66228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}