{"id":82705,"date":"2015-03-05T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82705\/copper-cable-thieves-arrested-in-the-wee-hours\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T12:17:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T10:17:16","slug":"copper-cable-thieves-arrested-in-the-wee-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/05\/copper-cable-thieves-arrested-in-the-wee-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper cable thieves arrested in the wee hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the EMPD\u2019s Anti-Cable Theft Unit, who were patrolling in Germiston, on Wednesday morning, arrested two men after they were found in possession of a freshly dug up copper cable and implements used for digging up and cutting cables.<\/p>\n<p>Their two accomplices managed to evade arrest.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The arrests took place at 1.30am.<\/p>\n<p>The four men were seen digging a trench along the M2 highway, between Refinery Road and the footbridge.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>With back-up from Combined Private Investigation (CPI) personnel, the EMPD officers approached the four men.<\/p>\n<p>Two were apprehended and the other two managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Two 3m and 7m copper cables, a hacksaw, a pick and a spade were confiscated from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated value of the cable is R5 000.<\/p>\n<p>The men, aged 27 and 48, were charged with suspected theft of underground copper cable at the Germiston Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>They are expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate\u2019s Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You may also be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81713\/empd-arrest-19-speedsters-in-ekurhuleni\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD arrest 19 speedsters in Ekurhuleni<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/78490\/empd-arrest-man-and-confiscate-goods-worth-over-r1-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">Counterfeit Adidas tracksuits worth over R1-million confiscated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='7a5ce0dd73353d01f72a06f6a7ebe1de'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two copper cable thieves nabbed by EMPD officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82706,"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":[991,6752,989,988,979,969,3784,2734],"class_list":["post-82705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-cable-theft","tag-copper-cables","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-m2-highway","tag-melissa-hart"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["cable theft","copper cables","crime","empd","germiston","germiston city news","m2 highway","melissa hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82705","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=82705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}