{"id":92912,"date":"2015-06-30T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92912\/empd-raid-nets-illegal-cigarettes-worth-r21-000\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T07:29:37","slug":"empd-raid-nets-illegal-cigarettes-worth-r21-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/30\/empd-raid-nets-illegal-cigarettes-worth-r21-000\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPD raid nets illegal cigarettes worth R21 000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shop, staffed by four men, was raided by EMPD Germiston Crime Prevention Unit members on Sunday, June 28.<\/p>\n<p>The shop, located in Rietfontein Road, Primrose, was raided at 10.30am and officers found a total of 42 cartons of illegal cigarettes.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The four men in the shop were arrested and charged at the Primrose Police Station, with possession of illicit cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Six cartons of Mega cigarettes and 36 cartons of Sevilles, valued at approximately R21 000, were confiscated.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The men arrested included three Pakistani nationals aged 24, 35 and 27, and one Malawian man, aged 21.<\/p>\n<p>They were expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court on Monday, June 29.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91896\/empd-trace-hijacked-vehicle-nab-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD trace hijacked vehicle, nab one<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/88641\/empd-make-drug-bust-after-tip-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD make drug bust after tip-off<\/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='8c2629daf88221400a2bde2fc97d260d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raid leads to arrest of four for possession of illicit smokes worth R21 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":92913,"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":[989,988,979,969,7734,2734,999,1000,1480,1366,998],"class_list":["post-92912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-crime","tag-empd","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-illegal-cigarettes","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-police-station","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["crime","empd","germiston","germiston city news","illegal cigarettes","melissa hart","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose Police Station","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92912","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=92912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}