{"id":39223,"date":"2026-05-30T23:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=39223"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:42:40","slug":"appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-rutherford-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-rutherford-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate man missing from Rutherford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Lower Hunter Valley area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell O\u2019Hare, aged 37, was last seen at Lovedale on Monday 25 May 2026. His vehicle was located about&nbsp;8pm&nbsp;the same day on Aberglaslyn and First Streets, Rutherford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police and family hold concerns for Mitchell\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 180cm tall, of medium build, with short light brown hair and unshaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was last seen wearing yellow and blue, long sleeve work shirt, black jeans and work boots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitchell is known to frequent the Lovedale, Cessnock, Metford, and Twelve Mile Creek areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Lower Hunter Valley area. Mitchell O\u2019Hare, aged 37, was last seen at Lovedale on Monday 25 May 2026. His vehicle was located about&nbsp;8pm&nbsp;the same day on Aberglaslyn and First Streets, Rutherford. Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District were notified and commenced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/appeal-to-locate-man-missing-from-rutherford-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate man missing from Rutherford&#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-39223","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\/39223","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=39223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39224,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39223\/revisions\/39224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}