{"id":84149,"date":"2015-03-20T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84149\/man-assaulted-and-robbed\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T07:48:18","slug":"man-assaulted-and-robbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/20\/man-assaulted-and-robbed\/","title":{"rendered":"Man assaulted and robbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old man was recently arrested by the Primrose police for common robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to police by the victim, who said he was walking in Willow Street when a Volkswagen Polo Vivo stopped in front of him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cA man got out of the vehicle and asked the victim for the time, claiming he didn\u2019t have a watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he looked down at his watch, the man punched him hard in the stomach,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The accused searched the victim, as he knelt on the floor recovering from the punch, and took his cell phone before fleeing.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was traced, using the description given by the victim, and arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court where the case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles 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\/70073\/man-gets-15-years-for-attempted-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Long prison sentence for would-be robber.<\/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='3dc11f7a38d244ff4e3d92c3bc9433b4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for Willow Street robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":84151,"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":[1041,3272,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-84149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-common-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","common 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\/84149","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=84149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}