Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage boy reported missing from the State\u2019s Hunter Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brayden Bennett-Schuster, aged 16, was last seen in Raymond Terrace about 12pm on Friday 16 January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unable to be contacted or located since, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police and family have concerns for Brayden\u2019s welfare due to his age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brayden is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 160cm tall, with a thin build, and brown hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is known to the frequent the Raymond Terrace, Central Coast, and Mount Druitt areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone with information into his whereabouts is urged to call Port Stephens-Hunter Police District or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage boy reported missing from the State\u2019s Hunter Region. Brayden Bennett-Schuster, aged 16, was last seen in Raymond Terrace about 12pm on Friday 16 January 2026. Unable to be contacted or located since, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into … Continue reading “Appeal to locate teenage boy missing from Raymond Terrace”<\/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-36982","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\/36982","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=36982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36983,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36982\/revisions\/36983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}