{"id":98992,"date":"2016-07-18T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98992"},"modified":"2016-07-18T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:52:24","slug":"fugitive-tricked-into-prison-by-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/98992-fugitive-tricked-into-prison-by-pokemon-go","title":{"rendered":"Fugitive tricked into prison by Pokemon GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pokemon GO has helped police capture a wanted fugitive, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/07\/15\/german-police-arrest-suspect-playing-pokemon-go.html\" target=\"_blank\">FOX news<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year old man who was wanted for evading a pending prison sentence ventured out to play the newly launched &#8220;Pokemon GO&#8221; smartphone game with friends.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police in Trier, on Germany&#8217;s western border, said the group&#8217;s &#8220;peculiar behavior&#8221; as they played the game in the city on Friday prompted officers to check their papers.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old initially gave a false identity but police quickly established that there was an arrest warrant out for him. He was detained and is now serving a six-month prison sentence he had previously avoided serving \u2014 police wouldn&#8217;t specify for what.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Pokemon GO has led to an unusual discovery. Check out some of the more unusual stories <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/98380-the-5-craziest-places-people-have-gone-while-playing-pokemon-go.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to SeatStory Cup V \u2013 A highlight on the Hearthstone Calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/98864-seatstory-cup-v-a-highlight-on-the-hearthstone-calendar.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">SeatStory Cup V \u2013 A highlight on the Hearthstone Calendar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to beat any gym in Pok\u00e9mon GO\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/98950-how-to-beat-any-gym-in-pokemon-go.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to beat any gym in Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how much data and battery Pokemon GO really uses\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/98856-this-is-how-much-data-and-battery-pokemon-go-really-uses.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how much data and battery Pokemon GO really uses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how Pokemon Go helped police capture a wanted fugitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,6],"tags":[31,20484,4567,20230,20314,2163],"class_list":["post-98992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-criminal","tag-funny","tag-jail","tag-pokemon-go","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98996,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98992\/revisions\/98996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}