{"id":70971,"date":"2014-10-17T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70971\/suspect-charged-after-attack-with-brick\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T06:49:07","slug":"suspect-charged-after-attack-with-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/17\/suspect-charged-after-attack-with-brick\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect charged after attack with brick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently tracked down and arrested a suspect in connection with the assault of a man in the Makause informal settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was first reported to police on September 13.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThrough hard work and determination our detectives were able to trace and arrest the accused,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant alleged that he visited a friend at his shack and, on arrival, found him at the gate.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>While the two men stood outside talking, the accused came from behind the victim and, without saying anything, grabbed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe victim claims that he fell to the ground and that the accused picked up a brick and hit him,\u201d explained Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The man vanished after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He was formally charged with assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm and 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='5fc29776ab1f0b19e4e78a154adcda53'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man attacked with brick while visiting friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":71002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[1041,1397,1321,2731,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-70971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-assault","tag-assault-gbh","tag-assault-with-intent-to-cause-grievous-bodily-harm","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"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","assault","assault GBH","Assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70971","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=70971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}