{"id":11860,"date":"2013-11-21T05:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11860"},"modified":"2013-11-21T05:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T05:27:03","slug":"two-s-african-policemen-hijacked-a-liquor-truck-and-offloaded-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11860","title":{"rendered":"Two S. African policemen hijacked a liquor truck and offloaded contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8741\" alt=\"saps4\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two policemen were arrested in Elsburg, Germiston, on Wednesday for hijacking a truck and stealing alcoholic beverages worth R2m, the Hawks said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police spokesperson Paul Ramaloko said a warrant officer and a constable stopped a truck on the N3 highway on 1 November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The driver and his crew were detained at a police station while the policemen drove the truck to an undisclosed place and offloaded the liquor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They released the driver and his crew without formally charging them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They have been charged with truck hijacking. There is a possibility that a charge of theft can be added,&#8221; Ramaloko said<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said liquor worth R100 000 had been recovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The policemen were expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"_htmlAccreditationName\">&#8211; SAPA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two policemen were arrested in Elsburg, Germiston, on Wednesday for hijacking a truck and stealing alcoholic beverages worth R2m, the Hawks said. Police spokesperson Paul Ramaloko said a warrant officer and a constable stopped a truck on the N3 highway on 1 November. The driver and his crew were detained at a police station while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two S. African policemen hijacked a liquor truck and offloaded contents&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7504,1757,7503,205,210],"class_list":["post-11860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-elsburg","tag-hijack","tag-liquor","tag-police","tag-saps"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/saps4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11861,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11860\/revisions\/11861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}