{"id":82518,"date":"2015-03-05T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T06:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82518\/seven-arrested-in-katlehong-stop-and-search\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T07:20:06","slug":"seven-arrested-in-katlehong-stop-and-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/05\/seven-arrested-in-katlehong-stop-and-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven arrested in Katlehong stop-and-search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Katlehong police and Katlehong Crime Prevention Unit recently arrested seven suspects during a stop-and-search operation in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Among those arrested was a 21-year-old man, who was found in possession of two toy guns and three plastic bags containing dagga.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was arrested in Sontonga Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were first alerted to the situation when a community member informed them of a young man threatening community members with a firearm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The police are following up on similar complaints in the area, to establish if the accused has been involved in any more crimes, with special focus on armed robberies.<\/p>\n<p>The other six suspects were arrested on charges of rape, assault, shoplifting, and possession of dagga.<\/p>\n<p>All seven suspects are expected to appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/78647\/arrests-made-katlehong-saps-stop-search\/\" target=\"_blank\">Suspects arrested on various changes in the Katlehong area.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81975\/stop-and-search-yields-results-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fourteen suspects arrested for various crimes in Katlehong.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81727\/stop-and-search-operations-yield-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stop-and-search operations yield results.<\/a><\/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='20306453e5e43bcc8c64e26494a0cdd7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man found with fake guns in stop-and-search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82701,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,1015,1034,1314,2730,999,998,2852],"class_list":["post-82518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-stop-and-search"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","katlehong","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS","stop and search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82518","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=82518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}