{"id":36633,"date":"2015-11-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/36633\/somalians-arrested-with-khat\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:09:08","slug":"somalians-arrested-with-khat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/01\/somalians-arrested-with-khat\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalians arrested with khat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men were found in possession of the prohibited substance khat. Catha endulis (commonly known as khat) is a plant containing the psychoactive component cathione.<\/p>\n<p>Chewing the plant is an age old tradition originating from East Africa. The effects of the plant can be compared to the drug speed (amphetamine).<\/p>\n<p>The plant can be found growing in the Roossenekal and Steelpoort areas, making the R555 (Stoffberg road) and the N4 major smuggling routes.<\/p>\n<p>Shalan Yusuf (28) and Amalon Yusuf (33) have been charged with drug possession. They are both kept in custody.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-36633 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/11\/01\/somalians-arrested-with-khat\/attachment\/bjok77-1-15_84742\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/10\/BJOK77-1-15_84742-270x203.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-36635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/10\/BJOK77-1-15_84742-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/10\/BJOK77-1-15_84742-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2015\/10\/BJOK77-1-15_84742.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-36635'>\n\t\t\t\tShalan Yusuf (28) and Amalon Yusuf (33) were allegedly arrested in alleged possession of khat.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What was to be a routine stop and search turned into a massive drug bust when two Somalian nationals were arrested by the Middelburg Flying Squad on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":36634,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633","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=36633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}