{"id":88641,"date":"2015-05-06T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88641\/empd-make-drug-bust-after-tip-off\/"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:16:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:16:34","slug":"empd-make-drug-bust-after-tip-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/06\/empd-make-drug-bust-after-tip-off\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD make drug bust after tip-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were recently arrested by members of the EMPD and charged with dealing in drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests were made at Maguerete Lake Place, in Primrose.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Officers received information that two men, aged 24 and 31, were selling drugs from the location.<\/p>\n<p>After staking-out the building, officers decided to search the premises, and found four plastic packets containing what officers believed to be drugs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Both suspects were arrested and taken to the Primrose Police Station where they were formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe salute the EMPD officers for helping us in our mission to prevent crime in our area,\u201d said communications officer for the Primrose police, Sgt Styles Maome.<\/p>\n<p>Both men have since appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where their cases were postponed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81103\/drug-dealer-nabbed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man charged with dealing in and possession of drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Drug%20lab in Buhle Park raided, police confiscate mandrax.\" target=\"_blank\">Drug lab in Buhle Park raided, police confiscate mandrax.<\/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='0b352414e83c92b3d5fa2ecdf5895e40'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men arrested after anonymous tip-off. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":82636,"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":[1041,8297,3574,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,6643,998],"class_list":["post-88641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-dealing-in-drugs","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-sector-three","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","community","dealing in drugs","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","primrose sector three","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88641","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=88641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}