{"id":79019,"date":"2015-01-21T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79019\/man-nabbed-while-trying-to-make-off-with-lawnmower\/"},"modified":"2015-01-21T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T08:52:57","slug":"man-nabbed-while-trying-to-make-off-with-lawnmower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/21\/man-nabbed-while-trying-to-make-off-with-lawnmower\/","title":{"rendered":"Man nabbed while trying to make off with lawnmower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man pushing a lawnmower was recently arrested by the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were out patrolling in Elsburg, at about 12.20pm, when they saw the man walking down the street, pushing the machine.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They approached him and asked him who the owner of the lawnmower was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe lied and said the lawnmower belonged to him as he had bought it,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen the officers asked him to show them his receipt he could not produce it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey then asked him to take them to the place where he had bought the lawnmower and he refused to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and detained at the Elsburg Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old man will face a charge of possession of suspected stolen property.<\/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='a0935ecc40da75aa328aaf7414242f15'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No grass cutting for this alleged thief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":79030,"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":[989,1318,1938,1509,979,969,2734,999,4090,998,1137],"class_list":["post-79019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-elsburg","tag-elsburg-police","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-possession-of-suspected-stolen-property","tag-saps","tag-theft"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","elsburg","elsburg police","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","possession of suspected stolen property","SAPS","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019","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=79019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}