{"id":229939,"date":"2026-04-09T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rundu-roof-jumping-suspect-initially-arrested-on-tuesday-over-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:37:20","slug":"namibia-rundu-roof-jumping-suspect-initially-arrested-on-tuesday-over-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rundu-roof-jumping-suspect-initially-arrested-on-tuesday-over-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Rundu Roof Jumping Suspect Initially Arrested On Tuesday Over Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The escaped suspect (23) who jumped from the New Shopping Mall at Rundu on Wednesday, was arrested on Tuesday on a charge of assault by threat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The suspect was initially reported to Kehemu Police Station and arrested at Bunya settlement in the Kavango West region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">He was being transferred to Rundu Police Station to be charged formally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Rundu station commander chief inspector Hermine Muranda says the suspect escaped shortly after arriving at the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;After he was brought from Bunya, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090406.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The escaped suspect (23) who jumped from the New Shopping Mall at Rundu on Wednesday, was arrested on Tuesday on a charge of assault by threat. The suspect was initially reported to Kehemu Police Station and arrested at Bunya settlement in the Kavango West region. He was being transferred to Rundu Police Station to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4304,28032,16990,4706,724,257,17997,2407,254,6550,7611,7871],"class_list":["post-229939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-initially","tag-jumping","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-roof","tag-rundu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspect","tag-threats","tag-tuesday"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}