{"id":20669,"date":"2014-10-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/20669\/drug-bust\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T09:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:14:30","slug":"drug-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/28\/drug-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mustapha Mahacha (25) faces charges of drug possession and suspected stolen property. Police recovered an estimated 80 pinches of what is suspected to be heroin as well as a bag with a brown powdery substance.<\/p>\n<p>An undisclosed amount of cash and at least ten cellphones were also allegedly in the man&#8217;s possession.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs will be sent away for forensic testing.<\/p>\n<p>Mahacha appeared in the Middelburg Magistrates court on Monday. The outcome of his first appearance was not known at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested on Sunday 26 October, allegedly in possession of a large amount of drugs, money and cellphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":20670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669","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=20669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}