{"id":41399,"date":"2026-11-03T08:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=41399"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:51:24","slug":"appeal-to-locate-teenage-boy-missing-from-waratah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-boy-missing-from-waratah\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate teenage boy missing from Waratah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage boy missing from the states Hunter Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archer Haynes-Prior, aged 14, was last seen on Station Street, Waratah, about 7.30pm yesterday (Sunday 1 November 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When he was unable to be located or contacted, officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified and inquiries into his whereabouts commenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are concerns for Archer\u2019s welfare due to his young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archer is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 185cm tall, of thin build, with brown hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was last seen wearing black tracksuit pants, a black Geed Up hoodie and blue Nike TN shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archer is known to frequent the Wallsend, Shortland and Sydney CBD areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone with information into his whereabouts is urged to contact Newcsatle 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 teenage boy missing from the states Hunter Region. Archer Haynes-Prior, aged 14, was last seen on Station Street, Waratah, about 7.30pm yesterday (Sunday 1 November 2026). When he was unable to be located or contacted, officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were notified and inquiries &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-boy-missing-from-waratah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate teenage boy missing from Waratah&#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-41399","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\/41399","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=41399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41400,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41399\/revisions\/41400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}