{"id":90875,"date":"2015-06-03T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90875\/man-arrested-for-drug-possession\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T06:46:10","slug":"man-arrested-for-drug-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/03\/man-arrested-for-drug-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for drug possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Benoni K9 Unit recently arrested a 28-year-old man for possession of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was made in Violet Road, Primrose, during a patrol of the Primrose area.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOfficers noticed a man acting suspiciously and approached him,\u201d said Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>They stopped him and, during a search, found a small plastic bag containing drugs in his front right pocket.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The man was arrested and handed over to the Primrose police, who formally charged him with possession of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The accused appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where the case was postponed for trial.<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89230\/creating-an-awareness-of-drugs-in-the-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creating an awareness of drugs in the community<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/90114\/men-arrested-for-drugs-and-bribery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Men arrested for drugs and bribery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/89068\/man-nabbed-for-drugs-in-rietfontein-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man nabbed for drugs in Rietfontein Road<\/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='d6f12bd2eeff2104deee8f11ad177abc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K9 unit assist in drug possession arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":90964,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,3482,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-90875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","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","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\/90875","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=90875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}