{"id":7158,"date":"2013-07-26T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/7158\/katlehong-saps-on-the-ballorgood-police-work-nets-suspects\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T12:56:18","slug":"katlehong-saps-on-the-ballorgood-police-work-nets-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/07\/26\/katlehong-saps-on-the-ballorgood-police-work-nets-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Katlehong SAPS on the ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong SAPS Visible Policing Unit arrested 20 people recently, during a stop-and-search operation.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made for various crimes, including, assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, fraud, the selling of liquor without a licence and being in possession of dagga.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>A 36-year-old man was nabbed at a roadblock, in Mofokeng Section, for being in possession of two pistols and 11 rounds of live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>While the police were conducting a roadblock in Thutong Road, they noticed a white Toyota Corolla, with four occupants.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The driver of the vehicle turned around before getting to the roadblock.<\/p>\n<p>The police became suspicious and followed the vehicle for about 300m.<\/p>\n<p>The car stopped and the three passengers got out and fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is alleged that one of the men who was spotted running away had a gun in his hand,&#8221; said Capt Mega Ndobe, communications officer for the Katlehong Police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The officers gave chase, but the three men disappeared into the houses nearby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Toyota was searched and was found to be in possession of a 9mm pistol and six rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The police conducted a thorough search of the vehicle and found a carrier bag containing another pistol and five rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested and will face charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The Katlehong SAPS are investigating whether the firearms have been used in the committing of any crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='af0a59d77edf6e178ec25cb090df864b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Katlehong police recently arrested a number of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":9209,"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":[989,1015,1314,1313,999,998],"class_list":["post-7158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-note","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-ketlehong","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","katlehong","katlehong saps","ketlehong","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158","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=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}