{"id":92346,"date":"2015-06-24T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92346\/battery-thief-arrested\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T07:21:16","slug":"battery-thief-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/24\/battery-thief-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery thief arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Rietfontein Road resident recently woke up to discover his car\u2019s battery had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>He opened a case with the Primrose police after the incident.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe explained to the officers that his neighbour had told him that he\u2019d seen a man taking the battery out of the car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe neighbour allegedly asked the man what he was doing, to which the accused replied the battery belonged to him,\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>Using the description given by the neighbour detectives followed several leads and a 24-year-old man was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with theft and the possession of suspected stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court where his case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/81106\/three-men-found-with-assortment-of-stolen-goods\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three men found with assortment of stolen goods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/60446\/man-found-with-stolen-property\/\" target=\"_blank\">Man found with stolen property<\/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='0df60f91d81c3725552c8940ec531ccb'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neighbour alerts man to theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92347,"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":[1041,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,4090,1000,1480,997,998,1137],"class_list":["post-92346","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-suspected-stolen-property","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps","tag-theft"],"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 suspected stolen property","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS","theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92346","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=92346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}