{"id":91041,"date":"2015-06-05T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91041\/men-assault-man-after-alleged-theft\/"},"modified":"2015-06-05T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T06:46:41","slug":"men-assault-man-after-alleged-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/05\/men-assault-man-after-alleged-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Men assault man after alleged theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An alleged victim of recent mob justice has come forward and identified his attackers to the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The man claimed that he was in the Makause informal settlement when he was attacked by four men.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>During questioning, the men explained that they had attacked the man after he broken into their shack and stolen a car battery.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested all four suspects and charged them with assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe are appealing to our community not to take the law into their own hands, they must report any criminal activity to the police,\u201d urged Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n<p>The men will appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court soon.<\/p>\n<p>Other articles on mob justice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/48939\/five-nabbed-for-possession-of-firearmsorprimrose-police-arrest-five\/\" target=\"_blank\">Primrose police arrest five<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/25380\/a-tavern-murder-caseorman-dies-after-being-stabbed-twice\/\" target=\"_blank\">A tavern murder case<\/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='e626ce75f1a9b91b3af5226f2667be24'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men arrested after mob justice incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":91081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,508,2],"tags":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,7559,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-91041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-editors-choice","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-mob-justice","tag-police","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","mob justice","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91041","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=91041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}