{"id":39243,"date":"2026-06-01T19:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=39243"},"modified":"2026-06-01T19:14:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:14:55","slug":"appeal-to-locate-teen-missing-from-metford-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/appeal-to-locate-teen-missing-from-metford-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate teen missing from Metford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teen missing from the Hunter region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xavier Powrie, aged 14, was last seen on Marshall Avenue, Metford, about 1am on Saturday 30 May 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District were notified yesterday (Sunday 31 May 2026) and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police and family hold concerns for Xavier\u2019s welfare due to his young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 170cm tall, of thin build, short curly hair with a rat\u2019s tail and a diamond earring in his right ear lobe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was last seen wearing a black Nike zip up jumper and black basketball pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xavier is known to frequent the Metford and East Maitland area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone with information into his whereabouts is urged to contact Maitland Police or Crime Stoppers on&nbsp;1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teen missing from the Hunter region. Xavier Powrie, aged 14, was last seen on Marshall Avenue, Metford, about 1am on Saturday 30 May 2026. When he could not be located or contacted, officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District were notified yesterday (Sunday 31 May &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/appeal-to-locate-teen-missing-from-metford-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate teen missing from Metford&#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-39243","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\/39243","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=39243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39244,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39243\/revisions\/39244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}