{"id":68098,"date":"2014-09-05T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/68098\/three-men-caught-red-handed\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:50:59","slug":"three-men-caught-red-handed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/05\/three-men-caught-red-handed\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men caught red-handed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men, between the ages of 24 and 28, were arrested by the Primrose police for the possession of stolen goods.<\/p>\n<p>The three were apprehended in First Street, Wannenburg, last Wednesday, following an anonymous tip-off from a community member, who explained that they had been seen stealing iron, used as fencing at a local tennis court, on several occasions.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers travelled to the address given, where they caught the three men in the process of removing the stolen iron from the area.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station, where they were formally charged.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAs much as we understand the issue of unemployment, it does not give people permission to steal state property,&#8221; said communications officer for the Primrose police Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep arresting all law-breakers and bringing them to book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;As police, we salute the member of the community who supplied the information that led to their arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspects will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/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='9199c8fedd7e32f8b782655781f044f8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron stolen from tennis court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":68099,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1137],"class_list":["post-68098","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-germiston-city-news","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","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","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\/68098","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=68098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}