{"id":11926,"date":"2013-11-22T06:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2013-11-22T06:26:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:26:36","slug":"four-men-arrested-for-hijacking-in-downtown-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11926","title":{"rendered":"Four men arrested for hijacking in downtown Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hijacking-jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11927\" alt=\"Scene of the hijacking as captured on CCTV\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hijacking-jpg-300x179.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hijacking-jpg-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hijacking-jpg.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scene of the hijacking as captured on CCTV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four men have been arrested in connection with the hijacking of a family&#8217;s car in central Johannesburg, which made headlines when CCTV footage of the crime was posted online, Gauteng police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said in a statement that the men had been taken in for questioning and that the family&#8217;s silver Toyota Rav4 and a Toyota Corolla were recovered on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Further investigations are continuing as more people might have been involved,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police were investigating four hijackings in downtown Johannesburg, also caught on camera, which the men may also be linked to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The footage was being analysed to identify the hijackers and the weapons used.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-h5dnvxuEiY\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 16, the family were hijacked at the intersection of Commissioner and Crown streets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police spokeswoman Obakeng Mabaso said at the time that a car overtook the family&#8217;s car as they were waiting at the intersection, and parked in front of it. Another car parked it in from behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Two men from one car and two from the other car got out&#8230; .They ordered [the family] to get out of the car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They took two cellphones, and R10,000 in cash. Two of the assailants were armed. In the footage, a VW Polo cuts in front of the Toyota and an Opel Corsa parks behind it. There appear to be four occupants in the Toyota.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the hijacking, a woman is pulled out of the car, falls to the ground and walks towards the pavement as the attackers drive off with the car. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men have been arrested in connection with the hijacking of a family&#8217;s car in central Johannesburg, which made headlines when CCTV footage of the crime was posted online, Gauteng police said on Friday. On Thursday Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said in a statement that the men had been taken in for questioning and that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four men arrested for hijacking in downtown Johannesburg&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7554,34,7555,1766,239],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cbd","tag-crime","tag-downtown","tag-hijacking","tag-johannesburg"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Hijacking-jpg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","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=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11929,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions\/11929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}