{"id":84899,"date":"2015-03-29T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84899\/man-poses-as-lawyer-to-steal-money\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T12:03:57","slug":"man-poses-as-lawyer-to-steal-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/29\/man-poses-as-lawyer-to-steal-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Man poses as lawyer to steal money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old man was recently arrested by the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with theft under false pretences, after a woman alleged that he pretended to be a lawyer.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim told officers that her husband had been arrested and, while she was at the police station the suspect approached her, claiming to be a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is alleged that the man told the woman to deposit money into an account to ensure her husband\u2019s released,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>When her husband didn\u2019t return home the woman called the police station, to discover that he had not been released.<\/p>\n<p>She phoned the &#8221;lawyer&#8221; immediately, but, when he didn&#8217;t answer the calls, she became suspicious and opened a case with the police.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were able to track down the suspect, who was arrested on Wednesday, March 25.<\/p>\n<p>He will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/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='d7fe171ce52edfd4a1d71be99ca62082'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":84926,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1684,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-84899","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-fraud","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","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","fraud","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\/84899","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=84899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}