{"id":74007,"date":"2014-11-20T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/74007\/woman-behind-bars-for-dealing-dagga\/"},"modified":"2014-11-21T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T06:42:03","slug":"woman-behind-bars-for-dealing-dagga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/11\/20\/woman-behind-bars-for-dealing-dagga\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman behind bars for dealing dagga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on a crime prevention and visibility foot patrol of the Mandela area members of the Katlehong Peace Corps, as well as EMPD officers arrested a woman.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old was found in possession of dagga and rock, she was arrested and illegal substances were seized by officers.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The incident took place just after midday on Wednesday, November 19, after officers stopped and searched a youth smoking dagga, at the corner of Stanley and Tshabalala roads in the Mandela section.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cooperative youngster in exchange for amnesty, and following a tongue lashing, pointed out the house where he bought the dagga from,\u201d explained Insp Kobeli Mokheseng, media liaison officer for the EMPD.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cMore back-up was called and officers visited the house that had been identified by the youngster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was there that officers discovered the woman, who was busy packing dagga and rock in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EMPD officers recovered four, 5kg plastic bags full of dagga and two small packs of rock to the estimated street value of R20 000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trader is facing a charge of possession of illegal substancse and dealing in dagga.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was taken to the Katlehong North Police Station and will appear in the Palmridge Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/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='100a2a14a7f2903d29db0dc435c0cfe8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman arrested for dagga possession in Mandela area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":74008,"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":[1041,8297,1012,1003,988,1106,979,969,5721,1034,1314,2730,999,1113,998],"class_list":["post-74007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-empd","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong-peace-corps","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-possession-of-dagga","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","empd","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Katlehong Peace Corps","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","possession of dagga","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74007","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=74007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}