{"id":55990,"date":"2022-10-21T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/five-armed-robbers-arrested-in-hertzogville-20221021\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T22:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:46:24","slug":"five-armed-robbers-arrested-in-hertzogville-20221021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/five-armed-robbers-arrested-in-hertzogville-20221021\/","title":{"rendered":"Five armed robbers arrested in Hertzogville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Five men linked to an attempted armed robbery have been arrested<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The SAPS confiscated three firearms, six cellphones and three vehicles<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u201cWe regard this as a breakthrough,\u201d said Molale<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five men linked to an attempted armed robbery in Hertzogville were arrested and appeared in court on charges of possession of illegal firearms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrests were made by the Hertzogville and Christina police in partnership with Hertzogville Farmers Safety following the incident that happened on 19 October at about 09:40. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTwo suspects, driving a silver Audi with Gauteng registration numbers, arrived at a bottle store and allegedly pointed a firearm at the employee. 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