{"id":82898,"date":"2015-03-07T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82898\/passing-empd-officers-come-to-womens-rescueorhell-hath-no-fury\/"},"modified":"2015-03-06T13:49:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T11:49:31","slug":"passing-empd-officers-come-to-womens-rescueorhell-hath-no-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/07\/passing-empd-officers-come-to-womens-rescueorhell-hath-no-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing EMPD officers come to women\u2019s rescue"},"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 articles on armed robbery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/70073\/man-gets-15-years-for-attempted-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Long prison sentence for would-be robber.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/54571\/men-terrorising-the-communityormen-found-in-possession-of-dangerous-weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Men found in possession of dangerous weapons.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81460\/man-shot-on-highway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Police are investigating a case of attempted murder.<\/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='3a99a503ea4fd9f55487c7e4cf8d93c9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women threatened with sharp object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82899,"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":[1041,6764,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-82898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-attempted-robber-with-a-weapon-other-than-a-firearm","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 robber with a weapon other than a firearm","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\/82898","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=82898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}