{"id":63220,"date":"2017-02-14T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=63220"},"modified":"2017-02-15T08:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:42:31","slug":"conspiracy-rob-studio-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/02\/14\/conspiracy-rob-studio-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy to rob Studio 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police received a tip-off early this week as the hit was initially scheduled to take place on Tuesday. But a heavy police presence deterred the suspects who returned on Wednesday to commit the crime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63225\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/02\/882-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But before they could even get close to the vicinity of Studio 88 in OR Tambo street, police pulled them over, searched and arrested them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63226\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/02\/883-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One unlicensed firearm was seized and all five suspects appeared last Thursday before the Middelburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63227\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/02\/884-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They have been identified as Sfiso Ben Simela, Sizwe Mthethwa, Trevor Mosiya, Lindikhaya Gwebusha and Sipho Sibiya.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63228\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/02\/885-LL-ZN-520x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read other news here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63219\/sikloon-op-pad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sikloon is op pad!<\/a><\/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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63189\/stolen-car-chased-highway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stolen car chased on highway<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five suspects were arrested in Walter Sisulu Street near the Nkangala District Municipality last Wednesday morning for conspiracy to commit an armed robbery at Studio 88 in the Middelburg CBD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":63224,"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-63220","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\/63220","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=63220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}