{"id":46415,"date":"2016-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/46415\/what-was-in-that-envelope\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T10:48:08","slug":"what-was-in-that-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/11\/what-was-in-that-envelope\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: What was in that envelope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information has it that a police officer was seen last week receiving an envelope from a man who walked out of the house to meet him, shortly after he parked his official vehicle. Sadly, the witness could not take down a numberplate.<\/p>\n<p>A sharp increase in young kids visiting the premises have been noted. Several foreign nationals are often seen at the house and there is a strong suspicion that they are doing drug deals from there.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 13 women were counted sitting on chairs on the sidewalk outside the house during the past week.<\/p>\n<p>Read previous stories here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/9194\/prostitutes-fight-over-client-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video: Prostitutes &#8216;fight over clients&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/21811\/hard-evidence-house-used-by-prostitutes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Video &#8211; (Not for sensitive listeners): House used by prostitutes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/18172\/sex-trade-booming-in-middelburg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sex trade booming in Middelburg <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/29566\/we-aim-to-clean-the-streets-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Update: Victory againts prostitution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/24660\/everyone-is-buying-sex\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Everyone is buying sex&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources who live and work in the area of the brothel in Meyer Street are adamant that police vehicles are a common sight at the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":46466,"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-46415","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\/46415","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=46415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}