{"id":72029,"date":"2014-10-31T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72029\/jilted-lover-charged-with-arson\/"},"modified":"2014-10-30T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:02:44","slug":"jilted-lover-charged-with-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/31\/jilted-lover-charged-with-arson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jilted lover charged with arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old woman was arrested by the Primrose police and charged with arson, in the Marathon informal settlement, recently.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were alerted to the incident when a complainant came forward, alleging that he and his girlfriend had been asleep when, at around 9pm, he heard people screaming that his shack was on fire.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He and his girlfriend jumped out of bed and rushed outside to discover that his brother\u2019s shack was also on fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man alleged that he was told by a member of the community that his brother&#8217;s girlfriend had set fire to the shacks,\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>Dedicated detectives followed several leads on the matter and, two days after the incident was reported, the suspect was arrested and detained at Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing to our community to seek help when there are problems in their relationships; a troubled relationship is no reason to commit crime, because they will be arrested,\u201d added Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where the case was postponed for trial.<\/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='c7e8495be9d93a9cc44610d757e8673a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman sets fire to shacks in act of revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72030,"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":[1895,989,1128,979,969,2730,1384,999,1000,1480,998],"class_list":["post-72029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arson","tag-crime","tag-fire","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-marathon-informal-settlement","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arson","crime","fire","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","marathon informal settlement","police","primrose","Primrose police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72029","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=72029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}