{"id":30987,"date":"2025-01-22T08:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=30987"},"modified":"2025-01-22T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:09:21","slug":"appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate man missing from Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing in the Lake Macquarie region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Dumbrell, aged 35, was last seen at a hospital in Waratah about 6.50am on Tuesday 14 January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police and family hold concerns for Andrew\u2019s welfare as he lives with medical conditions which require medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 165cm to 170cm tall, of medium build, with grey hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is known to frequent the Windale, Warners Bay, Charlestown and Belmont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information into his whereabouts is urged to contact Lake Macquarie Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing in the Lake Macquarie region. Andrew Dumbrell, aged 35, was last seen at a hospital in Waratah about 6.50am on Tuesday 14 January 2025. When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate 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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987","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=30987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30988,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30987\/revisions\/30988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}