{"id":95187,"date":"2015-07-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95187\/armed-robbers-steal-items-worth-r15-000\/"},"modified":"2015-07-24T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T07:50:34","slug":"armed-robbers-steal-items-worth-r15-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/24\/armed-robbers-steal-items-worth-r15-000\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbers steal items worth R15 000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg SAPS are investigating a case of armed robbery after a recent incident in Wadeville.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that the complainant stopped his Toyota Hilux bakkie in Osborn Road, Wadeville, as he was coming to the assistance of his colleague who was driving a company truck which had broken down.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen he stopped next to the truck in Osborn Road, two unknown males approached him, armed with a revolver and demanded the bakkie keys,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey then searched the bakkie for tracker devices.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey took two cellphones, a gold necklace (chain) and tools all valued R15 000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The complainant\u2019s colleague, who had been driving the broken down truck, fled the scene and managed to spot an EMPD vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>He reported the robbery to them and they responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The armed robbers quickly fled in a red Uno.<\/p>\n<p>They did not take the complainant\u2019s bakkie.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other crime articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95137\/alleged-business-robbers-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alleged business robbers arrested<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/95102\/elsburg-police-crackdown-on-crime\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elsburg police crackdown on crime<\/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='d7b81d3e74677e712ca9ceb197e10e3e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wadeville armed robbery suspects still at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":95230,"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":[2805,989,1509,979,969,2734,999,998,1267],"class_list":["post-95187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-armed-robbery","tag-crime","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-saps","tag-wadeville"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["armed robbery","crime","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","SAPS","wadeville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95187","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=95187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}