{"id":72109,"date":"2014-10-30T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72109\/murder-suspect-nabbed-in-katlehong\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:29:35","slug":"murder-suspect-nabbed-in-katlehong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/30\/murder-suspect-nabbed-in-katlehong\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder suspect nabbed in Katlehong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect, who has been on the run for almost two months, was identified on October 26, by EMPD Public Order Policing Unit members, in Katlehong.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was being sought in connection with murder cases frequently occurring in and around Katlehong hostels, since January, this year.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The 30-year-old man was among the audience in a meeting held at the Buyafuthi hostel, called by concerned Indunas from Kwazulu-Natal, who were addressing the senseless killing issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect tried to flee when he noticed our hawk-eyed officers, who were monitoring the event,&#8221; said EMPD spokesman, Insp Kobeli Mokheseng.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He was cornered and taken to the Katlehong South Police Station, after he was identified by a hostel resident as a hit-man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the SAPS, in the charge office, at the Katlehong South Police Station, confirmed that the suspect is on the wanted list for murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was handed over to the SAPS&#8217;s Detective Unit working on cases to which he is linked,&#8221; explained Mokheseng.<\/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='70af4be10414595f29d850b0e19d1536'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hit-man&#8217; arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72132,"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":[989,4781,988,5369,5372,979,5370,5371,1015,1034,3034,5368,1563,999,2749,998,2206,1911],"class_list":["post-72109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-ekurhuleni-metro-police-department","tag-empd","tag-empd-public-order-policing-unit","tag-empd-spokesman-inspector-kobeli-mokheseng","tag-germiston","tag-insp-kobeli-mokheseng","tag-inspector-kobeli-mokheseng","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-police-station","tag-katlehong-south-police-station","tag-murder","tag-police","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-saps","tag-south-african-police-services","tag-suspect"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department","empd","EMPD Public Order Policing Unit","EMPD spokesman Inspector Kobeli Mokheseng","germiston","Insp Kobeli Mokheseng","Inspector Kobeli Mokheseng","katlehong","katlehong police","Katlehong Police Station","Katlehong South Police Station","murder","police","Puleng Sekabate","SAPS","south african police services","suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72109","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=72109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}