{"id":90114,"date":"2015-05-23T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90114\/men-arrested-for-drugs-and-bribery\/"},"modified":"2015-05-22T14:00:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:00:34","slug":"men-arrested-for-drugs-and-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/05\/23\/men-arrested-for-drugs-and-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"Men arrested for drugs and bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men, aged 20 and 40 years old, were recently arrested by members of the Germiston Flying Squad.<\/p>\n<p>The men were arrested in Rietfontein Road, in Primrose, while officers were on patrol in the area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOfficers on patrol at around 7.30pm noticed the two men acting suspiciously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey stopped the men and searched them. During the search they found a plastic bag containing a white substance, believed to be drugs,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>In an attempt to avoid arrest, the men tried to bribe the officers with R200.<\/p>\n<p>The men were arrested and formally charged with the possession of drugs, as well as attempting to bribe an officer.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories you may be interested:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88021\/empd-officers-raid-flats-seize-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD officers raid flats, seize drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/82359\/officers-arrest-32-year-old-for-dealing-drugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers arrest 32-year-old for dealing drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='6eba7a6eaad965b5713a525f4ad42752'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men try to bribe officers with R200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":90115,"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":[1041,1445,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,3482,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-90114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-bribery","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-possession-of-drugs","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","bribery","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","possession of drugs","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90114","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=90114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}