{"id":70876,"date":"2014-10-16T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70876\/man-tampers-with-local-atm\/"},"modified":"2014-10-16T08:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T06:36:38","slug":"man-tampers-with-local-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/16\/man-tampers-with-local-atm\/","title":{"rendered":"Man tampers with local ATM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a report from a distraught Primrose resident, a 20-year-old man was arrested and charged with theft on Friday, October 3.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant told police that on Thursday, October 2, he went to one of the local ATMs, in Rietfontein Road, Primrose to withdraw money.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He inserted the bank card and entered the pin number, as usual, but neither the money nor the card came out.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to cancel the transaction but still his card was not returned.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A few minutes later he received a message on his cellphone that R1 000 had been withdrawn and his card was returned to him.<\/p>\n<p>However, the machine produced no money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur dedicated detectives followed the matter and the accused was traced and arrested the following day,\u201d explained communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The man appeared 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='c19528a5df002b58fd820153d8e44919'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man robbed of R1000 in ATM scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":70877,"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":[1041,3708,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998,1137],"class_list":["post-70876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-atmosphere","tag-community-2","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-theft"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","atmosphere","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70876","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=70876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}