{"id":88868,"date":"2015-05-11T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88868\/two-men-on-the-run-after-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T07:47:04","slug":"two-men-on-the-run-after-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/11\/two-men-on-the-run-after-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men on the run after armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old man was recently arrested after being handed over to the Katlehong police by the community.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest followed an armed robbery of a 33-year-old woman, in the Likole Section of Katlehong.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>It is alleged that the victim was walking home when she was confronted by three men.<\/p>\n<p>The men held the woman at gun and knife point while they searched her for valuables.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The victim screamed for help and the men, having taken her cellphone from her pocket, retreated.<\/p>\n<p>They were then chased by members of the community who had heard the woman\u2019s cries for help.<\/p>\n<p>One of the three men was cornered and handed over to police, while the other two escaped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank the community for their help in fighting crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA case has been opened and we hope the two remaining suspects will be arrested soon,\u201d said Capt Mega Ndobe, communications officer for the Katlehong police.<\/p>\n<p>The man, charged with armed robbery, will appear in the Palm Ridge Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other stories you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/65528\/armed-robbers-caught-after-cigarette-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Armed robbers get away with R145 000 worth of cigarettes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/52626\/couple-robbed-in-the-wee-hoursorcouple-shocked-after-armed-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Couple shocked after armed 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='57cc6cf1085483203f401a3517b3b520'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman robbed by three armed men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":88898,"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":[2805,1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,969,1034,1314,2730,999,998],"class_list":["post-88868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-armed-robbery","tag-arrests","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-katlehong-police","tag-katlehong-saps","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["armed robbery","arrests","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston city news","katlehong police","katlehong saps","Leigh Hodgson","police","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88868","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=88868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}