{"id":37734,"date":"2026-03-04T04:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=37734"},"modified":"2026-03-04T04:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:11:56","slug":"appeal-to-locate-woman-missing-from-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/appeal-to-locate-woman-missing-from-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate woman missing from Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a womam missing from the state\u2019s north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa Grimmond, aged 40, was last seen in Macquarie Road, Cardiff, about 3.30pm yesterday (Monday 2 March 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she was unable to be located or contacted, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified at 9am today (Tuesday 3 March 2026) and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Family and police hold concerns for Melissa\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 160cm-165cm tall, of medium build, with blonde hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is known to frequent the Kingsford, Maroubra and Randwick areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to contact Belmont Police Station or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a womam missing from the state\u2019s north. Melissa Grimmond, aged 40, was last seen in Macquarie Road, Cardiff, about 3.30pm yesterday (Monday 2 March 2026). When she was unable to be located or contacted, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified at 9am today (Tuesday &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/appeal-to-locate-woman-missing-from-cardiff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate woman missing from Cardiff&#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-37734","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\/37734","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=37734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37735,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37734\/revisions\/37735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}