{"id":97457,"date":"2015-08-23T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/97457\/police-track-down-alleged-business-robbers\/"},"modified":"2015-08-24T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T09:16:45","slug":"police-track-down-alleged-business-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/08\/23\/police-track-down-alleged-business-robbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police track down alleged business robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg SAPS tracked down and arrested two alleged business robbers in the early hours of last Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The complainant alleged that, last Sunday, at about 2.30am, he was asleep when a noise at the back of his Rondebult spaza shop awakened him.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He went to check and found a man inside the shop, which was locked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked the man what he was doing, when, suddenly, another man grabbed him by his neck and pushed him to the floor and told him to keep quiet,\u201d said Const Daphney Phooko, communications officer for the Elsburg SAPS.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The robbers made off with cigarettes and groceries.<\/p>\n<p>The following morning (Monday), at about 2.30am, police tracked down the suspects and arrested them.<\/p>\n<p>They are due to appear in the Germiston Magistrates Court on a charge of business robbery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other crime articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/97421\/robbers-target-cellphone-shop-at-golden-walk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robbers target cellphone shop at Golden Walk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/97135\/empd-saps-nail-hijackers-recover-vehicle-and-firearm\/\" target=\"_blank\">EMPD, SAPS nail hijackers, recover vehicle and firearm<\/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='83f226e48ee0e38a0a341285df1ce50d'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged business robbers nabbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":97458,"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":[2810,989,1509,979,969,2734,999,2473,998],"class_list":["post-97457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-business-robbery","tag-crime","tag-elsburg-saps","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-police","tag-rondebult","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["business robbery","crime","Elsburg SAPS","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","police","rondebult","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97457","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=97457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}