{"id":88143,"date":"2015-04-30T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88143\/man-handed-over-to-police-after-botched-robbery-attempt\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:51:30","slug":"man-handed-over-to-police-after-botched-robbery-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/04\/30\/man-handed-over-to-police-after-botched-robbery-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Man handed over to police after botched robbery attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police recently arrested a 25-year-old man on a charge of attempted business robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The accused was handed over to officers after a botched robbery attempt.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim explained to officers that he had been in his store, in Rietfontein Road, when three men entered.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the men tried to overpower the victim by strangling him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe man fought back and, realising that they would not be able to overpower the victim, two of the suspects ran away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sounds from the struggle and the hasty exit of the two suspects drew the attention of a passer-by.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the passer-by\u2019s help, the victim was able to corner the third man,\u201d explained communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called to the scene where the accused was handed over to them.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/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\/58653\/business-robbed-twice-in-one-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alleged thief fatally wounded in robbery.<\/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='71cf1c5a5b9a3228e65d835f6626e192'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested for attempted business robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":88144,"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":[1041,7267,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-88143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-attempted-business-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 business 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\/88143","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=88143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}