{"id":3055,"date":"2012-10-26T04:40:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T04:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2012-10-26T04:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T04:45:01","slug":"four-men-including-policeman-arrested-for-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"Four men, including policeman, arrested for robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/police_sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3058\" title=\"police_sign\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/police_sign-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/police_sign-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/police_sign.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Four men, including a police officer, were arrested as they allegedly tried to rob a house in Jeppe, Johannesburg police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were caught when they arrived at the house belonging to a businessman on Macdonald Street, after police were tipped off on Wednesday morning, Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The men were found in possession of several items of police equipment and uniforms. A crime scene jacket, handcuffs, a fraudulent police identity certificate, handcuffs, a service pistol, a shocking stick with police identification marks, and nine cellphones were among the items seized. Three vehicles were impounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the men was a policeman based at the Johannesburg Central police station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Friday on charges of conspiracy to commit house robbery and impersonating police. Investigations were continuing to establish if they could be linked to other crimes. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four men, including a police officer, were arrested as they allegedly tried to rob a house in Jeppe, Johannesburg police said on Thursday. They were caught when they arrived at the house belonging to a businessman on Macdonald Street, after police were tipped off on Wednesday morning, Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said. The men were found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Four men, including policeman, arrested for robbery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[219,34,1964,1963,259,12250],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-jeppe","tag-policeman","tag-robbery","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/police_sign.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}