{"id":12398,"date":"2013-12-19T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12398"},"modified":"2013-12-19T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T09:18:51","slug":"police-arrest-four-robbers-in-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12398","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest four robbers in KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/saps2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8114\" alt=\"saps2\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/saps2.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>Dundee police and Glencoe K9 members arrested four suspects for business robbery in\u00a0the\u00a0Dundee CBD and recovered firearms, stolen cash\u00a0as well as\u00a0the getaway vehicle in Newcastle.\u00a0On\u00a017 December 2013 at 09:15 employees\u00a0of a retail clothing store\u00a0were allegedly accosted at gunpoint by four armed unknown men who demanded cash and robbed them of an undisclosed amount of cash at gunpoint.\u00a0The suspects fled in their getaway vehicle\u00a0which\u00a0was parked outside the store. No shots\u00a0were\u00a0fired and no\u00a0person was injured\u00a0during the robbery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After an initial\u00a0investigation\u00a0police proceeded\u00a0to Newcastle where they\u00a0arrested four suspects between the ages of 30 and 48 and recovered some of the money that was allegedly stolen. Three firearms,\u00a0two 9mm pistols and a revolver were seized and the motor vehicle that was allegedly used during the commission of crime was also seized.\u00a0All four\u00a0suspects will be charged for business robbery, possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition as well as possession of suspected stolen property. They will appear in Dundee Magistrates Court soon. The firearms will be sent to ballistics to ascertain whether they were used in the commission of any other crime in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni commended the members\u00a0for arresting theses\u00a0criminals and\u00a0for\u00a0the seizure of illegal firearms. \u201cWe are committed to eradicating\u00a0criminal activities in the province of KwaZulu-Natal and confident that the impact of these\u00a0arrests\u00a0will\u00a0result in the\u00a0reduction of\u00a0the serious and violent crimes during the festive season,\u201d\u00a0she\u00a0said. &#8211; SA Police media release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dundee police and Glencoe K9 members arrested four suspects for business robbery in\u00a0the\u00a0Dundee CBD and recovered firearms, stolen cash\u00a0as well as\u00a0the getaway vehicle in Newcastle.\u00a0On\u00a017 December 2013 at 09:15 employees\u00a0of a retail clothing store\u00a0were allegedly accosted at gunpoint by four armed unknown men who demanded cash and robbed them of an undisclosed amount of cash &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police arrest four robbers in KZN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1253,34,832,205,259,210],"class_list":["post-12398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-arrest","tag-crime","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-police","tag-robbery","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\/07\/saps2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398","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=12398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12401,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12398\/revisions\/12401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}