{"id":92327,"date":"2015-06-24T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92327\/illegal-ammunition-found-in-mans-home\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T07:24:06","slug":"illegal-ammunition-found-in-mans-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/24\/illegal-ammunition-found-in-mans-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal ammunition found in man\u2019s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Primrose police have sent a warning about illegal ammunition to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping illegal ammunition is an offence and one can be prosecuted if found in possession of illegal ammunition,\u201d said 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>The warning comes after a 31-year-old man was recently arrested when rounds of illegal ammunition were found in his Primrose home.<\/p>\n<p>The ammunition was found during a police search for drugs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cOfficers were at the home searching for drugs, as they had received an anonymous tip-off that there were drugs on the property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile searching the premises they found the live ammunition,\u201d said Maome.<\/p>\n<p>The accused was asked to produce a licence for the ammunition and when he was unable to do so he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He was released on bail and is expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court at a later date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/45070\/man-arrested-in-malvern-eastor-man-arrested-for-possession-of-an-unlicenced-firearm-and-live-ammunition\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man arrested in Malvern East<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88239\/four-men-found-with-unlicensed-firearms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four men found with unlicensed firearms<\/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='2c9be8953c9a0075813e237cf76d49b4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man arrested when ammunition found in his home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92328,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,7672,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-92327","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-illegal-ammunition","tag-leigh-hodgson","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","Illegal ammunition","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92327","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=92327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}