{"id":72041,"date":"2014-11-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72041\/phony-officers-rob-man\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T13:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:47:38","slug":"phony-officers-rob-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/01\/phony-officers-rob-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoney officers rob man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police have arrested a 29-year-old man for common robbery, in Pretoria Road, in Primrose.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made after a man came to the Primrose Police Station and reported the robbery to officers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim alleged that he was walking along Pretoria Road, when a vehicle stopped near him.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle&#8217;s two occupants informed him that they were police officers and that they needed to take him to the station for questioning.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When he refused one of the occupants got out of the vehicle and forced him inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he was in the vehicle the victim was told that the men were not police officers, as they had claimed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey instructed the man to give them everything from his pockets; while one was driving the other man started searching the victim and remove R320 and a cellphone,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was then thrown from the moving vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>After following several leads Primrose police detective were able to trace and arrest one of the two suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The second is still at large.<\/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='2a549e97bc796db52458b38678f8ccac'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men pretending to be cops rob victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72042,"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":[989,5378,979,969,2730,999,1000,997,1572,998],"class_list":["post-72041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-fake-police-officers","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-robbery","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","fake police officers","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","robbery","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72041","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=72041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}