{"id":99580,"date":"2015-09-12T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/99580\/man-arrested-for-attempted-hijacking\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:19:48","slug":"man-arrested-for-attempted-hijacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/09\/12\/man-arrested-for-attempted-hijacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for attempted hijacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was recently forced to seek refuge at the Primrose Police Station after an attempted hijacking in Rietfontein Road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complainant told officers he had been driving along Rietfontein Road when a Volkswagen Citi Golf, with a Free State registration, drove up beside him and the occupant threatened him with a firearm,\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>Officers left the station to investigate and found the vehicle, with a single occupant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring a routine search of the driver a pellet gun was found.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that this was the gun used to threaten the complainant,\u201d Maome said.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old man was arrested and charged with attempted hijacking.<\/p>\n<p>He has since appeared in the Germiston Magistrates Court where his case was postponed for a bail application.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/66218\/attempted-hijacking-caught-on-camera\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attempted hijacking caught on camera<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/74757\/breaking-new-ram-courier-van-hijacked-gerdview\/\" target=\"_blank\">RAM courier van hijacked involved in attempted hijacking<\/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='79c9b8bb1e04c2b1aaa4e28092959b6a'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorist manages to avoid hijacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":99581,"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":[1041,4260,8297,989,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,999,1000,1480,997,998],"class_list":["post-99580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-arrests","tag-attempted-hijacking","tag-community-2","tag-crime","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-police","tag-primrose","tag-primrose-police","tag-primrose-saps","tag-saps"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["arrests","attempted hijacking","community","crime","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","police","primrose","Primrose police","Primrose SAPS","SAPS"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99580","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=99580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}