{"id":81824,"date":"2018-06-07T12:29:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T10:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=81824"},"modified":"2018-06-07T12:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T10:29:58","slug":"three-officers-arrested-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/06\/07\/three-officers-arrested-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Three officers arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Sgt Themba Ntuli (35), stationed at Middelburg, is facing charges of attempted murder and contravening a protection order relating to an incident that took place on Monday 4 June.<\/p>\n<p>According to provincial spokesperson Brig Leonard Hlathi, Sgt Ntuli went to the house of a woman who has a protection order against him, at 01:15 in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly knocked on her bedroom window and called her name.<\/p>\n<p>The woman did not reply and moved to another room. Shortly thereafter she heard gunshots and later discovered that her bedroom window was damaged.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt Ntuli was arrested and appeared in the Mkobola Magistrate Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/62382\/policeman-in-court-for-iron-burns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Policeman in court for iron burns<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He will remain in custody until his formal bail application on Monday 11 June.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Two police officers working in Belfast have been charged with attempted murder and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Hlathi says that Constables Sibusiso Hlophe (27) and Zaine Mathebula (40) are accused of shooting at the car of a 28-year-old man whilst he was driving with passengers inside.<\/p>\n<p>Bullets hit the rear window, headrest and dashboard of the car.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car was loaded into the back of the police vehicle the constables were driving in at the time. They later requested money for his release.<\/p>\n<p>Both constables were picked from a line-up during an identity parade.<\/p>\n<p>They have appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machadodorp\" target=\"_blank\">Machado<\/a> Court and have been released on R1 000 bail each.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was postponed until Wednesday 20 June for further investigation.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>More Stories:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/81804\/n4-closed-two-killed-early-morning-multiple-vehicle-collision-close-alzu\/\" target=\"_blank\">N4 closed- Two killed in early morning multiple vehicle collission close to Alzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/81746\/golf-bars-deur-kollege-heining\/\" target=\"_blank\">Golf bars deur kollege heining<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/81795\/dwelms-op-bestelling-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dwelms op bestelling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/81785\/video-chaos-toe-toue-voertuie-wag-om-brandstof-vol-te-maak\/\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: Chaos toe toue voertuie wag om brandstof vol te maak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Want breaking news on the go?<\/h3>\n<p>\u2022 Save our standby number (072 248 3855) and send us a WhatsApp message with the words \u201cAdd me\u201d to be added to our broadcast list.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Like us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddelburgObserver\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, follow us on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MOBSERV\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mobserver\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCs1fP1J8BpepNwIfk2qeVkQ\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Have a news tip?<\/h3>\n<p>Contact our news room on our 24 hr standby number\u00a0072 248 3855, or send a mail to our editor\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:tobie@mobserver.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">tobie@mobserver.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three police officers within the Middelburg Cluster were arrested on charges of attempted murder, corruption and the contravening of a protection order. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":62091,"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":[11771,11770,11769,11768,4755,11766,11767],"class_list":["post-81824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-attempt-of-murder","tag-charges-of-corruption","tag-contravening-of-protection-order","tag-corrupt-police-officers","tag-middelburg-saps","tag-police-arrested","tag-three-police-officers-arrested"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Attempt of murder","charges of corruption","Contravening of protection order","corrupt police officers","Middelburg SAPS","police arrested","Three police officers arrested"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81824","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\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}