{"id":35268,"date":"2025-10-08T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=35268"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:26:00","slug":"appeal-to-locate-a-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/appeal-to-locate-a-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate a man missing from Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the state\u2019s north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leo Hampton-Tungutalum, aged 22, was last seen on The Boulevarde, Toronto, about 1.30pm on Friday 3 October 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 Leo\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leo is described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance, 175cm tall, medium build, brown eyes, short beard and black hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is known to frequent the Lake Macquarie and Sydney metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the state\u2019s north. Leo Hampton-Tungutalum, aged 22, was last seen on The Boulevarde, Toronto, about 1.30pm on Friday 3 October 2025. When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/08\/appeal-to-locate-a-man-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate a 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-35268","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\/35268","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=35268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35269,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35268\/revisions\/35269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}