{"id":41864,"date":"2016-01-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/41864\/two-arrested-for-drugs\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:08:42","slug":"two-arrested-for-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/26\/two-arrested-for-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested for drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kgopotso Phokoane (30) known as &#8220;Rasta&#8221;, following a tip-off, was arrested at his home in Extension 3 when police allegedly found hero\u00efn in a pill container and three other &#8220;balls&#8221;. Mr Phokoane was charged with dealing in drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Police were driving in Extension 1 during an operation when suddenly a group of men ran away when the police vehicle approached.<\/p>\n<p>The police chased them and arrested Happy Thugwane (32) allegedly with 11 pinches of hero\u00efn. He was arrested and charged with possession of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Both men appeared in court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mhluzi police are serious about the fight on drugs in the community. The police is working very hard to get rid of the drugs on the streets,&#8221; said Sgt Nelisiwe Masemola.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men from Mhluzi were arrested on Tuesday, one for possession and the other for dealing in drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":41865,"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":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-local-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\/41864","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=41864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}