{"id":5994,"date":"2020-04-14T01:50:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2020-04-14T01:50:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T01:50:35","slug":"police-appeal-for-information-after-reported-coughing-incident-nelson-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/police-appeal-for-information-after-reported-coughing-incident-nelson-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for information after reported coughing incident &#8211; Nelson Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after two people were coughed on by an unknown man in the state\u2019s Hunter Region yesterday.<br \/>\nJust before 2pm (Sunday 12 April 2020), a 73-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman were walking along Victoria Parade, Nelson Bay, and as they approached the pedestrian crossing, a white Nissan Navara slowed and pulled up beside them.<br \/>\nPolice have been told that a man leaned his head and shoulders out of the passenger window and coughed \u2013 making a retching sound \u2013 over the couple.<br \/>\nHe and the other occupants in the vehicle started laughing before the vehicle drove off.<br \/>\nThe couple contacted police and officers from Port Stephens\/Hunter Police District commenced an investigation.<br \/>\nAs their inquiries continue, police are appealing for information from the community to locate the vehicle and identify the occupants at the time of the incident.<br \/>\nIn particular, investigators would like to speak with a man who they believe may be able to assist with their inquiries.<br \/>\nHe is described as being of Caucasian appearance with tanned skin, aged in his late teens or early 20s, with short, dark, curly hair. He was last seen wearing a red and dark-coloured checkered top.<br \/>\nPolice are urging anyone with information, including dash cam from the area around the time of the incident, to contact Nelson Bay police as soon as possible.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone who has information regarding individuals or businesses in contravention of a COVID-19-related ministerial direction is urged to contact Crime Stoppers:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong><em>https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after two people were coughed on by an unknown man in the state\u2019s Hunter Region yesterday. Just before 2pm (Sunday 12 April 2020), a 73-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman were walking along Victoria Parade, Nelson Bay, and as they approached the pedestrian crossing, a white Nissan Navara slowed and pulled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/police-appeal-for-information-after-reported-coughing-incident-nelson-bay\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police appeal for information after reported coughing incident &#8211; Nelson Bay&#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-5994","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\/5994","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=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}