{"id":7021,"date":"2013-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/7021\/alleged-car-thief-nabbedorpolice-catch-alleged-car-thief\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T10:51:08","slug":"alleged-car-thief-nabbedorpolice-catch-alleged-car-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/07\/11\/alleged-car-thief-nabbedorpolice-catch-alleged-car-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged car thief nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong SAPS arrested a 28-year-old man for being in possession of a stolen vehicle, last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the vehicle was stolen in Boksburg, half an hour before the police spotted it in Mofokeng Section, in Katlehong.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The police were out conducting their normal duties when they were alerted by the tracking company that the stolen Hyundai H100 was in their vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>As they approached the vehicle, the driver accelerated and the police gave chase.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>According to Capt Mega Ndobe, the communications officer for the Katlehong SAPS, the driver finally stopped the vehicle and was caught before he could flee on foot.<\/p>\n<p>The police are searching for the man&#8217;s accomplices, who were in the vehicle, as they managed to escape on foot.<\/p>\n<p>The man will be charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and malicious damage to property.<\/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='cf866614b6b18cda13fe699a3a65661b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong police have caught an alleged car thief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":7029,"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":[9,509,2],"tags":[1035,989,979,1015,1034,999,998],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-note","category-news-headlines","tag-car-theft","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["car theft","crime","germiston","katlehong","katlehong police","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","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=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}