{"id":77625,"date":"2018-01-19T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=77625"},"modified":"2018-01-19T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T09:38:08","slug":"video-addict-spikes-heroin-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/01\/19\/video-addict-spikes-heroin-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Addict spikes heroin on camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JP (Michael) Maritz woke up at around 06:00 on Friday 12 January next to Groenfontein Dairy in Kanonkop.<\/p>\n<p>He can be seen scratching his legs before starting to prepare his fix.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/o_qjG1uIrTc' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>On the video you can see how he extracts blood into a syringe to mix with the heroin before injecting it into his arm.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that his first fix did not do the trick as he almost immediately starts preparing a second hit.<\/p>\n<p>Read more stories about Middelburg\u2019s drug addicts, like where the girls from the McDonalds robot went, in this week\u2019s <em>Middelburg Observer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Also read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/69733\/middelburg-situated-popular-drug-route\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Middelburg situated on popular drug route<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/48100\/heroin-worth-millions-seized\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heroin worth millions seized<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/48614\/nyaope-and-crime-walk-hand-in-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nyaope and crime walk hand-in-hand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video material taken from security cameras tells a tragic story, of how a heroin addict, sleeping on the street, wakes up, prepares his fix and injects himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":12406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Middelburg Observer","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[8325,7870,10156,10157,4524,10010,21966,21990,10158],"class_list":["post-77625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-drug-addiction","tag-drug-addicts","tag-fix","tag-heroin","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg","tag-mpumalanga","tag-preparing-a-fix"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["caught on camera","drug addiction","drug addicts","fix","Heroin","local news","middelburg","Mpumalanga","preparing a fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77625","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\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}