{"id":98761,"date":"2015-09-04T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/98761\/police-witness-armed-robbery\/"},"modified":"2015-09-04T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T07:15:01","slug":"police-witness-armed-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/04\/police-witness-armed-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Police witness armed robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

During a recent patrol on Pretoria Road, officers of the Primrose police\u2019s housebreaking and theft task team witnessed a man being stabbed in the hand.<\/p>\n

After they arrested the 22-year-old man, the victim explained what had happened.<\/p>

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The victim said he was walking along Pretoria Road and took out his cellphone to make a call.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe claims he did not notice the man following him.<\/p>

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\u201cThe man grabbed the victim\u2019s hand and took his cellphone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim grabbed the man in an attempt to reclaim his phone, but the man took a sharp object out of his pocket and stabbed the man three times in the left hand,\u201d explained Sgt Styles Maome, communications officer for the Primrose police.<\/p>\n

An ambulance was called to the scene to transfer the victim to hospital, while the suspect was taken to the Primrose Police Station.<\/p>\n

He was charged with armed robbery and has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court, where the case was postponed for plea and trial.<\/p>\n

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