{"id":69132,"date":"2014-09-18T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69132\/man-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-after-escaping-police-custody\/"},"modified":"2014-09-18T08:50:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T06:50:18","slug":"man-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-after-escaping-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/09\/18\/man-sentenced-to-five-years-in-prison-after-escaping-police-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to five years in prison after escaping police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Germiston SAPS recently arrested a man who had escaped from the Germiston Magistrate Court.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were able to trace and arrest the man two days after he escaped from custody.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe officer in charge of the investigation and arrest was Sgt Josephine Mpufane,\u201d said spokesperson for the Germiston police, WO Andr\u00e9 de Jager.<\/p>\n<p>The man has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where he was convicted of escaping from lawful custody and sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In addition to his time in prison he was declared unfit to possess a firearm.<\/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='a470e2a3978417489236958937833572'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man found two days after escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":69139,"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":[1041,8297,1012,1003,4828,4829,1106,979,969,1031,1032,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-69132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-escape","tag-escape-of-lawful-custody","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-police","tag-germiston-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","escape","escape of lawful custody","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","germiston police","germiston saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69132","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=69132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}