{"id":82896,"date":"2015-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82896\/women-threatened-with-sharp-objectorwomen-turn-on-robber\/"},"modified":"2015-03-09T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:30:21","slug":"women-threatened-with-sharp-objectorwomen-turn-on-robber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/09\/women-threatened-with-sharp-objectorwomen-turn-on-robber\/","title":{"rendered":"Women threatened with sharp object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primrose police, with the assistance of the EMPD, recently arrested a 50-year-old man for attempted robbery with a weapon other than a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made when EMPD officers saw two women fighting with a man on Main Reef Road, in Primrose.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The officers broke up the altercation and questioned the three.<\/p>\n<p>The women claimed that they had been walking towards the Makause informal settlement when the man appeared out of the bushes.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He apparently threatened them with a sharp object and demanded their cellphones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth ladies fought back,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The man was arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station where he was formally charged.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other cases you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/79722\/men-nabbed-for-alleged-business-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two arrested after breaking into shop.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69211\/armed-robbers-chased-to-golden-walk-mall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brother assisted in suspects\u2019 arrest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/72053\/people-arrested-primrose-business-robbery-case\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police investigation leads to three more arrests in business robbery case.<\/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='c00dbb3ebc145c8522b27ac8ab979ca8'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passing EMPD officers come to women\u2019s rescue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":83022,"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":[1041,6775,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-82896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-attempted-robbery","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","attempted robbery","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82896","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=82896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}