{"id":70073,"date":"2014-10-05T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70073\/man-gets-15-years-for-attempted-robbery\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T14:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T12:46:12","slug":"man-gets-15-years-for-attempted-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/05\/man-gets-15-years-for-attempted-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 15 years for attempted robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good relationship between the Elsburg police and a robbery victim recently led to the arrest of an habitual criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Elsburg police spokesman Const Daphney Phooko said Nxele Mzwandile (35) was sentenced to 15 years in prison when he appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>On February 16, last year, a 28-year-old man was on duty at the Elsburg Railway Station when he was approached by an armed man, who pointed a firearm at him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The armed man demanded his cellphone but the victim realised that his assailant was struggling to use the firearm, so called for assistance from a colleague,&#8221; said Phooko.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;They managed to apprehend Mzwandile and took him to the Elsburg Police Station, where he was arrested and the firearm confiscated as evidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mzwandile was sentenced in the Germiston Magistrates Court, recently, to 15 years imprisonment for attempted robbery.<\/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='1ab5aada2cb986e11015afe596b6a57a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long prison sentence for would-be robber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70101,"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":[989,1318,1509,979,969,1536,2734,999,2191,1572,998],"class_list":["post-70073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-magistrates-court","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-prison","tag-robbery","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","elsburg","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston Magistrate's Court","melissa hart","police","prison","robbery","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70073","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=70073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}