{"id":8186,"date":"2026-01-06T23:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/8186\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:51:18","slug":"man-arrested-in-roodepoort-with-unlicensed-rifles-and-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/8186\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Roodepoort with unlicensed rifles and ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 36-year-old man has been arrested after he was found with two unlicensed riflesin Roodepoort, west of Joburg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police spokesperson Lt-Col Mavela Masondo said the search of the property was conducted by the Gauteng organised crime tracing team and officers from a police emergency services flexi team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cA team of two police units was mobilised to follow up on information. When they searched the house they found one AK-47 rifle, one 308 semi-automatic rifle, one magazine and more than 80 live rounds of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe man found in the house was arrested and charged with possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. He is expected to appear before Roodepoort magistrate\u2019s court in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The firearms will be taken for ballistic testing to establish if they were used in the commission of crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TimesLIVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 36-year-old man has been arrested after he was found with two unlicensed riflesin Roodepoort, west of Joburg.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5719,5723,5722,5729,5716,5727,3946,5728,5718,5724,5721,4967,5726,5717,5725,131,5720],"class_list":{"0":"post-8186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ak-47","9":"tag-ammunition-seizure","10":"tag-ballistic-testing","11":"tag-firearm-possession-charges","12":"tag-firearms-possession-charge","13":"tag-gauteng-crime","14":"tag-guns","15":"tag-illegal-firearms","16":"tag-organised-crime","17":"tag-police-operation","18":"tag-rifles","19":"tag-roodepoort","20":"tag-roodepoort-court","21":"tag-roodepoort-magistrates-court","22":"tag-semi-automatic-rifle","23":"tag-south-africa","24":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}