{"id":63189,"date":"2017-02-14T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T05:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=63189"},"modified":"2017-02-14T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:39:07","slug":"stolen-car-chased-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/14\/stolen-car-chased-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Stolen car chased on highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours after a car was reported stolen in Eastdene, it was announced over Zello that it was spotted in eMalahleni.<\/p>\n<p>A Middelburg 911 member who was in the vicinity followed directions to find the vehicle and spotted it on the highway driving on the N4.<\/p>\n<p>When they got near Kusile Power Station, the driver of the stolen vehicle realized he was being followed and made a U-turn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe caught up with him again near Highveld Steel and forced him into a field. He jumped out of the car and started to run. That&#8217;s when I tackled him,\u201d the 911 member said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was handcuffed and when police arrived he admitted that he was part of a gang of three more suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Police set up a trap and arrested a total of four people involved in the car theft.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were taken to eMalahleni Police Station and appeared before court last week.<\/p>\n<p>Read other news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63172\/video-tracers-kroeg-vroegoggend-deur-inbrekers-geteiken\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracers kroeg vroegoggend deur inbrekers geteiken<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63171\/video-die-voete-dans-platform-reunie\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Die voete dans by Platform Re\u00fcnie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected car thief was tackled to the ground by a member of Middelburg 911 following a car chase on the highway last Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":63191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Yaseen Gaffar","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63189","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\/63189","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\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}