{"id":20887,"date":"2023-04-04T23:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=20887"},"modified":"2023-04-04T23:08:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T23:08:50","slug":"man-missing-from-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Man missing from Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from Lake Macquarie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Walker, aged 45, was last seen leaving a hospital on Croudace Bay Road, Belmont, about 3am yesterday (Tuesday 4 April 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he could not be located, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police Area Command were notified. A search was conducted of the area with the assistance of SES, Surf Life Saving, Fire and Rescue and Polair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and family have concerns for his welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark is described as being of Caucasian appearance, olive complexion, about 170 &#8211; 175cm tall, of medium build, with black hair, black beard and moustache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was last seen wearing dark grey track pants, dark jumper, white joggers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark is believed to be in the Green Point Reserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information into his whereabouts is urged to contact Lake Macquarie Police or Crime Stoppers on&nbsp;1800 333 000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers:&nbsp;1800 333 000&nbsp;or&nbsp;https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from Lake Macquarie. Mark Walker, aged 45, was last seen leaving a hospital on Croudace Bay Road, Belmont, about 3am yesterday (Tuesday 4 April 2023). When he could not be located, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police Area Command were notified. A search was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/04\/04\/man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Man missing from Lake Macquarie&#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-20887","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\/20887","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=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20888,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions\/20888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}