{"id":36388,"date":"2025-12-06T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=36388"},"modified":"2025-12-06T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T06:41:14","slug":"appeal-to-locate-teenage-boy-missing-from-hamilton-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-boy-missing-from-hamilton-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate teenage boy missing from Hamilton South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a boy missing from the state\u2019s north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darcey McKay, aged 14, was last seen in Hamilton South about 4:45pm yesterday (Friday 5 December 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unable to be located or contacted since that time, officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family and police hold concerns for Darcey\u2019s welfare due to his age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darcey is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 155cm tall, of thin build with light brown hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was last seen wearing a predominantly black t-shirt depicting red and white graphics, tan shorts and brown \u201cBirkenstock\u201d shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darcey is known to frequent local skate parks, public parks, the Junction Fair, Bar Beach skate park and the Newcastle area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a boy missing from the state\u2019s north. Darcey McKay, aged 14, was last seen in Hamilton South about 4:45pm yesterday (Friday 5 December 2025). Unable to be located or contacted since that time, officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-boy-missing-from-hamilton-south\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate teenage boy missing from Hamilton South&#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-36388","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\/36388","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=36388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36389,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36388\/revisions\/36389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}