{"id":89112,"date":"2015-05-13T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89112\/alleged-tyre-thiefs-plans-foiled\/"},"modified":"2015-05-12T19:16:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T17:16:04","slug":"alleged-tyre-thiefs-plans-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/13\/alleged-tyre-thiefs-plans-foiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged tyre thief\u2019s plans foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An employee of a well-known earthmoving equipment company had his potential financial windfall of R15 000 derailed.<\/p>\n<p>The man allegedly stole four tyres from the company he worked for.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He was recently nabbed by EMPD members in the Germiston CBD and his plan to sell the tyres was scuttled.<\/p>\n<p>EMPD Equestrian Unit members approached the suspect while he was in the process of finalising the illegal transaction.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe claimed he had bought the tyres for his brother in Limpopo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officers, however, confirmed with his company that the tyres were actually missing from their stock and had been taken without authorisation,\u201d said Wilfred Kgasago, the spokesperson for the EMPD.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old man was charged with possession of stolen goods at the Germiston Police Station and was due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court to face the charge against him.<\/p>\n<p>Other crime stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88908\/local-family-overpowered-and-tied-up-during-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local family overpowered and tied up during robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88870\/young-woman-goes-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Young woman goes missing<\/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='d28a08ba48afdad0e8b29dd6d46022e0'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMPD Equestrian Unit nabs tyre thief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":89113,"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":[988,7370,979,1131,969,1032,2734,999,998,1137,5543],"class_list":["post-89112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-empd","tag-employee","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-cbd","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-saps","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-theft","tag-tyres"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["empd","employee","germiston","Germiston CBD","germiston city news","germiston saps","melissa hart","police","SAPS","theft","tyres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112","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=89112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}