{"id":11382,"date":"2021-05-12T03:17:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T03:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2021-05-12T03:17:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T03:17:05","slug":"police-continue-to-search-for-missing-hunter-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/police-continue-to-search-for-missing-hunter-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Police continue to search for missing Hunter man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are reappealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the state\u2019s Hunter region.<br \/>\nAllan Bentley, aged 63, was reported missing to the Port Stephens-Hunter Police District on Thursday 29 April 2021; CCTV footage has confirmed he was last seen leaving his home on Pindimar Road, Pindimar, for work about 7.30am on Tuesday 27 April 2021.<br \/>\nPolice have conducted extensive land and air searches \u2013 with the assistance of PolAir \u2013 however have not located Mr Bentley or his vehicle.<br \/>\nPolice and friends are concerned for his welfare as he hasn\u2019t attended several pre-arranged appointments which is out of character.<br \/>\nAllan is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 179cm tall, of medium build with short brown and grey hair and a beard.<br \/>\nIt is believed he may be driving a white coloured Holden combo van, with NSW registration UQG-146, which has \u2018catering\u2019 written on the side. He may also have power tools and firewood on board his vehicle.<br \/>\nHe is known to frequent the Pindimar, Tea Gardens, Hawks Nest, North Arm Cove, Hexham and Karuah areas for both work and personal purposes.<br \/>\nAnyone who may have information regarding Allan\u2019s whereabouts is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are reappealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the state\u2019s Hunter region. Allan Bentley, aged 63, was reported missing to the Port Stephens-Hunter Police District on Thursday 29 April 2021; CCTV footage has confirmed he was last seen leaving his home on Pindimar Road, Pindimar, for work about 7.30am on Tuesday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/police-continue-to-search-for-missing-hunter-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police continue to search for missing Hunter man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}