{"id":3176,"date":"2019-07-01T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2019-07-01T17:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T17:47:51","slug":"renewed-appeal-to-locate-missing-man-port-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/07\/01\/renewed-appeal-to-locate-missing-man-port-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewed appeal to locate missing man &#8211; Port Stephens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are renewing their appeal for public assistance to help locate a man who went missing from the Maitland area last month.<br \/>\nMichael McGarity, aged 61, was last seen leaving Maitland Hospital about 1.30am on Monday 24 June 2019.<br \/>\nHe walked out of the hospital and was last seen heading towards Telarah.<br \/>\nPolice and family hold concerns for his welfare due to medical reasons.<br \/>\nToday, officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District conducted an extensive land search around the Telarah and Maitland areas, with the assistance of the NSW Police Dog Unit, Police Rescue, PolAir and police trail bikes.<br \/>\nMr McGarity is known to frequent the Newcastle and North Rothbury areas.<br \/>\nHe is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 190cm tall with a thin build, black hair and brown eyes. He has a tattoo on his left lower arm \u2018TY\u2019.<br \/>\nHe was last seen wearing a black hooded jacket and white T-shirt with grey jeans and navy-blue shoes.<br \/>\nAnyone with information on Michael\u2019s whereabouts is urged to contact their local police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/a>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are renewing their appeal for public assistance to help locate a man who went missing from the Maitland area last month. Michael McGarity, aged 61, was last seen leaving Maitland Hospital about 1.30am on Monday 24 June 2019. He walked out of the hospital and was last seen heading towards Telarah. Police and family &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/07\/01\/renewed-appeal-to-locate-missing-man-port-stephens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Renewed appeal to locate missing man &#8211; Port Stephens&#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-3176","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\/3176","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=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}