{"id":68800,"date":"2014-09-12T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/68800\/sgt-tshepo-seerane-congratulated-on-a-job-well-done\/"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T08:11:09","slug":"sgt-tshepo-seerane-congratulated-on-a-job-well-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/12\/sgt-tshepo-seerane-congratulated-on-a-job-well-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Sgt Tshepo Seerane congratulated on a job well done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt Tshepo Seerane, a detective with the Primrose police, finally secured a conviction in a case in which he had been involved since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The case focused on the murder of a well-known Primrose businessman during a housebreaking and theft of a motor vehicle, in Sunnyridge.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The incident took place on November 25, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Through hard work and dedication Seerane was able to link three men to the crime.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They were arrested and appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where two of them were found not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>However, the third suspect, 27-year-old Khomotso Moswathupa, was found guilty and was sentenced, on March 12, of this year to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a020 years for aggravated robbery;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0life imprisonment for murder;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a010 years for possession of an unlicensed firearm;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0three years for possession of live ammunition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>During sentencing the judge made it clear that Moswathupa was also declare unfit to ever possess a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe management of Primrose SAPS thank the Sgt Seerane for such a good achievement, it shows that the detective was really dedicated to his job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will send a message to all law-breakers out there that criminals belong in jail,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, 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='1bb3bb87bb980af0507e4e180ea285ee'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sgt Seerane secures conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":68816,"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":[8297,2358,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2204,2730,1563,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-68800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-community-2","tag-conviction","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-housebreaking","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["community","conviction","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","housebreaking","Leigh Hodgson","murder","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800","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=68800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}