{"id":70544,"date":"2014-10-13T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70544\/police-remind-community-that-there-is-no-small-crime\/"},"modified":"2014-10-13T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T07:12:29","slug":"police-remind-community-that-there-is-no-small-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/13\/police-remind-community-that-there-is-no-small-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Police remind community that there is no small crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 32-year-old man was arrested and charged with shoplifting in a popular Rietfontein Road store, recently.<\/p>\n<p>Police were alerted to the incident by the store&#8217;s security.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe security guard told officers he had seen the accused placing a number of chocolate into his pants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he did not stop to pay at the checkout point the guard called him aside and asked to search him,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The accused failed to explain where the receipt for the items was and officers were called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to inform our community that crime does not pay, and there is no such thing as a small crime,\u201d added Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was held at the Primrose Police Station pending his appearance in the Germiston Magistrates Court.<\/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='3635b3e12b9ba68fd854040688cf5c8c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for stealing sweets at local shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70545,"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":[1041,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1534],"class_list":["post-70544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","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-shoplifting"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","shoplifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70544","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=70544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}