{"id":31420,"date":"2011-08-11T16:49:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31420"},"modified":"2011-08-11T16:50:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T14:50:52","slug":"copper-cable-thieves-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/31420-copper-cable-thieves-arrested.html","title":{"rendered":"Copper cable thieves arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When we conducted a search on Thursday morning at Extension 15 we found copper valued at R17,010,&#8221; Warrant Officer Malebo Khosana said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were doing a follow-up on stolen goods when they searched a shack and found suspected stolen copper which weighed 350 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>The owner of the shack denied ownership and tried to avoid arrest by offering a police officer a R1000 bribe.<\/p>\n<p>He led police to a 29-year-old man who he said used his shack to store the copper cable.<\/p>\n<p>The two men would appear at the Welkom Magistrates&#8217; Court, Khosana said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were arrested in Bronville on Thursday for copper cable theft, Free State police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":26533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,3628,109],"class_list":["post-31420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-copper","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420"}],"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=31420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31422,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420\/revisions\/31422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}