{"id":79045,"date":"2015-01-22T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79045\/quick-reaction-leads-to-arrest\/"},"modified":"2015-01-22T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T06:57:44","slug":"quick-reaction-leads-to-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/22\/quick-reaction-leads-to-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick reaction leads to arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While patrolling in Dekema Road, Wadeville, on Saturday, members of the Elsburg SAPS noticed two men carrying a blue tarpaulin (sail) truck cover at about 11.45am.<\/p>\n<p>When the men saw the officers, they dropped their cargo and fled in the direction of Lantern Road.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>One of the officers ran after them and managed to apprehend one of the men at the corner of Dekema and Lantern roads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dedicated police officer took the suspect back to the scene of the crime where he found his colleague with the owner of the truck cover,\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>\u201cThe complainant alleged that he had parked his truck, with the cover on the back of it, and gone into the shops to buy food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he came back he checked in the back of the truck and noticed that the cover was missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he was about to go to report the matter, he noticed the police vehicle and decided to report the matter to the officers.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect (25) was arrested and detained at the Elsburg Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon to face charges of possession of suspected stolen property and theft.<\/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='ed6159c78ae63dd35920bb824ac9a26b'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsburg SAPS nab man for theft and possession of suspected stolen property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":79046,"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":[989,1509,979,969,2734,999,4090,998,1137,1267],"class_list":["post-79045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-possession-of-suspected-stolen-property","tag-saps","tag-theft","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","possession of suspected stolen property","SAPS","theft","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79045","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=79045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}