{"id":68084,"date":"2017-06-12T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T06:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=68084"},"modified":"2017-06-13T09:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T07:35:58","slug":"trio-arrested-hunting-rifles-pangas-camouflage-trousers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2017\/06\/12\/trio-arrested-hunting-rifles-pangas-camouflage-trousers\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio arrested for hunting rifles, panga&#8217;s and camouflage trousers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a police report, the arrest was conducted last Thursday afternoon by Acornhoek Cluster members who were conducting an operation at Calcutta policing area.<\/p>\n<p>They stopped and searched an old Isuzu bakkie with three occupants, and police found a 303 hunting riffle with no serial number, an axe, a panga, a silencer, six rounds of a 303 rifle and a pair of camouflage trousers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68087\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68087\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0000_31919-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0000_31919-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0000_31919-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0000_31919-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0000_31919.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the items found in the Isuzu bakkie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trio from Belfast were identified as Louis Mhlaba (62), Lodrick Mashabane (25) and Morne Mathebula (35).<\/p>\n<p>They were arrested and appeared before the Mkhuhlu Magistrate\u2019s Court and granted R1 000 bail each. Their case was remanded to 28 August 2017.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68086\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-68086\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0001_64610-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0001_64610-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0001_64610-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0001_64610-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2017\/06\/IMG-20170612-WA0001_64610.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Isuzu bakkie was stopped and search<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three men from Belfast were arrested after being found in possession of hunting rifles, panga&#8217;s and camouflage trousers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":68088,"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":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68084","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\/68084","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=68084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}