Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Hunter region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benjamin Potroz, aged 34, was last seen in Thornton, about 10:30pm yesterday (Wednesday 18 February 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were notified today (Thursday 19 February 2026) and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police and family hold concerns for his welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Benjamin is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 175cm tall, of thin build, with brown hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He may be travelling in a 2021 model silver Subaru sedan with NSW registration ESW07S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is known to frequent the Thornton, Newcastle and New Lambton areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Hunter region. Benjamin Potroz, aged 34, was last seen in Thornton, about 10:30pm yesterday (Wednesday 18 February 2026). When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were notified today (Thursday 19 February 2026) and commenced … Continue reading “Appeal to locate man missing from Thornton”<\/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-37512","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\/37512","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=37512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37513,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37512\/revisions\/37513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}