{"id":15727,"date":"2014-07-31T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/15727\/confession-of-a-thief\/"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T11:58:40","slug":"confession-of-a-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/07\/31\/confession-of-a-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Confession of a thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sibusiso Mnguni was caught strolling in a street last week in Aerorand when guards noticed a suspicious bag he carried.<\/p>\n<p>The guards and some community members brought him to the Middelburg Observer where he confessed that he broke into houses.<\/p>\n<p>Mnguni (21), from Extension 24, admitted to stealing a Samsung cell phone, a TV, wheelbarrow, a gate remote and a wallet with a drivers licence, ID and an amount of R100.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/3mP553CTROs' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I stole because I am hungry, I can&#8217;t find a job and I live with a single parent,&#8221; he told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>He steals with his brother, and then takes the stolen goods to Mhluzi to various buyers, he admitted. He was taken to the police station for a statement.<\/p>\n<p>There is no police record of the suspect. &#8220;It is very common that suspects give wrong names to the police forgetting we have the fingerprints,&#8221; said Captain Zwane of SAPS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year old man admitted to breaking in into Aerorand homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":15728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[1425,9,1107,2064,843],"class_list":["post-15727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines","tag-aerorand-middelburg","tag-local-crime-news","tag-middelburg-observer","tag-thief","tag-thieves"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"tag_labels":["Aerorand Middelburg","Crime","Middelburg Observer","thief","Thieves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}