{"id":19982,"date":"2011-04-30T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-30T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T22:05:00","slug":"skype-leads-to-eastern-cape-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/19982-skype-leads-to-eastern-cape-arrest.html","title":{"rendered":"Skype leads to Eastern Cape arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">Roy Hicks, 75, was talking to his son in New Zealand on  Friday morning when two robbers broke into his home, said his  daughter-in-law Anelta Sneygans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Hicks jun. watched the robbers tie up his father and  ask where the valuables were kept in the house, she said. He then called  her in South Africa for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Sneygans contacted the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;The police service was amazing. They arrived at my father-in-law&#8217;s house within minutes,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">When the robbers tried to flee, the police opened fire on them wounding one in the leg and arresting the other, Sneygans said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">She said her brother-in-law had bought Hicks the  computer a week ago. He was using it for the first time to chat to his  son via Skype.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Police were not immediately able to confirm the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/330218-Skype-leads-to-Eastern-Cape-robbers-arrest\"><strong>Skype helps with arrest<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet telephone and video calling service, Skype, led to the capture of robbers who attacked a pensioner in his home in Middleton, in the Eastern Cape, on Friday, said his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}