A woman missing from Waratah has been located safe and well after police issued an SMS geo-targeting alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 79-year-old was last seen at Waratah about 2pm today (Saturday 17 February 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified a short time later when she was unable to be located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police subsequently issued a public appeal for information as well as an SMS geo-targeting alert to the Waratah area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 4.50pm, the woman was located by a member of the public who received the alert and subsequently contacted police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police would like to thank the public and media for their assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman missing from Waratah has been located safe and well after police issued an SMS geo-targeting alert. The 79-year-old was last seen at Waratah about 2pm today (Saturday 17 February 2024). Officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified a short time later when she was unable to be located. Police subsequently issued … Continue reading “Missing woman located after SMS geo-targeting alert issued – Newcastle City PD”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246","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=25246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25247,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25246\/revisions\/25247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}