{"id":12419,"date":"2021-08-09T02:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T02:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=12419"},"modified":"2021-08-09T02:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T02:12:31","slug":"appeal-after-spitting-incident-at-covid-19-testing-clinic-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/appeal-after-spitting-incident-at-covid-19-testing-clinic-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal after spitting incident at COVID-19 testing clinic &#8211; Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for information after a COVID-19 testing clinic employee was spat at in the state\u2019s Hunter at the weekend.<br \/>\nAbout 3pm Saturday (7 August 2021), an unknown man was waiting for a coronavirus test at a drive through clinic on Blomfield Street, Maitland, and became abusive after he was told the clinic was closing.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s alleged he then spat at the employee, narrowly missing him, before fleeing in a white coloured vehicle towards Wallace Street.<br \/>\nAs inquiries continue, police believe a man described as being of Caucasian appearance and without his two front teeth may be of assistance to them.<br \/>\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District are appealing for anyone who witnessed the incident, or has information or dashcam vision that could assist police, to contact Maitland Police Station on (02) 4934 0200.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong><em>https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for information after a COVID-19 testing clinic employee was spat at in the state\u2019s Hunter at the weekend. About 3pm Saturday (7 August 2021), an unknown man was waiting for a coronavirus test at a drive through clinic on Blomfield Street, Maitland, and became abusive after he was told the clinic was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/08\/09\/appeal-after-spitting-incident-at-covid-19-testing-clinic-hunter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal after spitting incident at COVID-19 testing clinic &#8211; Hunter&#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-12419","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\/12419","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=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}