{"id":72909,"date":"2014-11-06T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72909\/seven-arrested-for-dealing-in-liquor-without-a-licence\/"},"modified":"2014-11-06T12:16:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T10:16:33","slug":"seven-arrested-for-dealing-in-liquor-without-a-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/06\/seven-arrested-for-dealing-in-liquor-without-a-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven arrested for dealing in liquor without a licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested seven suspects aged between 34 and 46 for dealing in liquor without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>They were nabbed in the Makause and Marathon informal settlements.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Police officers were conducting operations in the settlements when they noticed groups of people sitting and drinking alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our police stopped and observed and saw people going into and out of various places with bottles of beer.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;They approached the places and gained permission to search.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They found a lot of beer and asked the owners for their liquor licences which they could not provide,&#8221; said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Germiston SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>The police arrested the owners and took them to Primrose Police Station for detention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will keep on having similar operations in our informal settlements, to reduce the high volume of liquor-related crimes,&#8221; said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the suspects paid admission of guilt fines, while others appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court and the matters were postponed for trial,&#8221; said Maome.<\/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='5f36004274ee26ed7edb89f3b4967e8c'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal liquor dealers nabbed by the Primrose SAPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":72910,"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":[989,979,969,2752,2753,2545,1384,2734,999,1000,997,998],"class_list":["post-72909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-liquor","tag-liquor-licence","tag-makause-informal-settlememt","tag-marathon-informal-settlement","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","germiston","germiston city news","liquor","liquor licence","makause informal settlememt","marathon informal settlement","melissa hart","police","primrose","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72909","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=72909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}