{"id":42202,"date":"2016-01-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/42202\/two-arrested-for-cannabis\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:19:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:19:39","slug":"two-arrested-for-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/01\/31\/two-arrested-for-cannabis\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested for cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colonel Moses Maepa and Captain Joseph Mathibe followed information that there is cannabis at a certain house in Reabota.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, they found two males with pokes of cannabis in their pockets and a five litre bucket with loose cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We follow any lead we get from the community in the fight against drugs, this dagga would have ended on our street. I urge members of the community to come forward and report any criminal activity in our community so that we can live in a safe community,&#8221; said Col Maepa.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Thubalakhe Bhengu (23) and Siphethe Ximba (37) appeared in court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested two suspects in Reabota on Monday afternoon for possession of cannabis (dagga).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":42203,"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":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42202","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\/42202","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=42202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}