{"id":18339,"date":"2019-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=5bbeaf1784b32c627df01696606d3ce4"},"modified":"2019-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T00:00:00","slug":"teen-charged-for-firearm-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged for firearm possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>DURBAN \ufffd Yesterday, police officers from the Durban Central Bike Unit were conducting operations in the CBD aimed at preventing criminal activities when they spotted two men carrying a backpack between Pine and Commercial Roads.<\/P><P>It is alleged that when the men spotted the police officers and they fled on foot. Police officers gave chase and an 18-year-old suspect was arrested. When a search was conducted, police recovered a firearm, knife, bank cards belonging to a female and other personal items.<\/P><P>After further investigating, police discovered that the items were stolen from a vehicle which was parked on Sydenham Road on 22 August 2019. The suspect was taken to Durban Central police station for detention and charged for possession of an unlicensed firearm, possession of dangerous weapon as well as possession of suspected stolen property.<\/P><P>He will also be linked to the case of theft out of motor vehicle that was opened at the Berea police station. The suspect will appear in the Durban Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Monday, 26 August 2019.<\/P><P>Another firearm has been recovered by Sydenham police from a 30-year-old suspect on Stanley Copley Road in Sydenham last night. The suspect was arrested for possession of an unlicensed firearm and will also be charged for bribery after he offered police officers cash for his release.<\/P><P>He will also appear in the Durban Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Monday, 26 August 2019. The recovered firearms will be sent for ballistic testing to determine whether they were used in the commission of any crime.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: South African Police Service<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURBAN \ufffd Yesterday, police officers from the Durban Central Bike Unit were conducting operations in the CBD aimed at preventing criminal activities when they spotted two men carrying a backpack between Pine and Commercial Roads.It is alleged that when &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Teen charged for firearm possession - South Africa Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teen charged for firearm possession - South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DURBAN \ufffd Yesterday, police officers from the Durban Central Bike Unit were conducting operations in the CBD aimed at preventing criminal activities when they spotted two men carrying a backpack between Pine and Commercial Roads.It is alleged that when ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-08-24T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sjadmin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"sjadmin\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/b5258049232dc72b42ad1073df5c990f\"},\"headline\":\"Teen charged for firearm possession\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-24T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-24T00:00:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/\"},\"wordCount\":255,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Human Rights\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/\",\"name\":\"Teen charged for firearm possession - South Africa Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-08-24T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-08-24T00:00:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/teen-charged-for-firearm-possession\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Teen charged for firearm possession\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/\",\"name\":\"South Africa Journal\",\"description\":\"Hub for all the Latest News &amp; 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