{"id":67593,"date":"2017-05-29T15:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T13:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=67593"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T08:02:01","slug":"man-accused-burning-dullstroom-detecives-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/05\/29\/man-accused-burning-dullstroom-detecives-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is the man accused of burning down the Dullstroom detecive\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provincial police spokesperson, brig. Leonard Hlathi, said that a 30 year-old suspect was arrested on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bhekumuzi Thomas Masina, from Sakhele Township near Dullstroom, was arrested after an intense investigation into the cause and possible motives for the arson on 11 May.<\/p>\n<p>Masina was found guilty of robbing someone of their cellphone and cash at knife point last year. The incident took place in the township he resides in, in December.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Hlathi says that Masina was supposed to have been sentenced for robbery on the day that he allegedly started the fire. He allegedly broke into the office searching for an incriminating docket.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67581\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67581\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/BJMEI82-17_47038-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/BJMEI82-17_47038-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/BJMEI82-17_47038-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/BJMEI82-17_47038-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/BJMEI82-17_47038.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bhekumuzi Thomas Masina.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The suspect is also accused of stealing two laptops before starting a fire in the office.<\/p>\n<p>Police notified the Fire Department after they noticed smoke coming from the office. By the time the Fire Department, situated in Belfast, arrived on the scene, it was too late to salvage anything.<\/p>\n<p>The docket Masina allegedly attempted to destroy, was not in the office that burnt down.<\/p>\n<p>Other important dockets, like the one for the murder and attack on Sue Howarth and her husband Robert Lynn, was sadly destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/63591\/horror-farm-attack-dont-afraid-darling\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0The horror of a farm attack \u2013 \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid my darling\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67582\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67582\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/SueandRobertLynn_01599-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/SueandRobertLynn_01599-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/SueandRobertLynn_01599-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/SueandRobertLynn_01599-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/SueandRobertLynn_01599.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Howarth and Robert Lynn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Masina appeared in the Belfast Magistrate Court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police made a major breakthrough in the investigation of arson after the Dullstroom detective unit was destroyed in a fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":67583,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67593","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=67593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}