{"id":8257,"date":"2020-09-18T13:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8257"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T13:50:47","slug":"appeal-to-locate-missing-teen-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/appeal-to-locate-missing-teen-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate missing teen \u2013 Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to find a teenage boy missing from the Lake Macquarie area.<br \/>\nChase Scorey, aged 14, was last seen leaving a home on Buller Street, Charlestown, just after 8.15am today (Friday 18 September 2020).<br \/>\nWhen he failed to return home, officers from Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and have commenced inquiries to locate him.<br \/>\nPolice and family have concerns for Chase\u2019s welfare due to his age.<br \/>\nChase is described as being Caucasian appearance, about 170cm tall, of thin build and with brown hair.<br \/>\nHe was last seen wearing a dark coloured hooded jumper with a thick grey stripe across the chest and arms, and blue dual tone boardshorts. He is believed to be wearing a grey helmet while riding a black mountain bike and carrying a grey and white backpack.<br \/>\nAnyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:1800%20333%20000\">1800 333 000<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"tel:1800%20333%20000\">1800 333 000<\/a> or <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\">https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/a>. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to find a teenage boy missing from the Lake Macquarie area. Chase Scorey, aged 14, was last seen leaving a home on Buller Street, Charlestown, just after 8.15am today (Friday 18 September 2020). When he failed to return home, officers from Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/appeal-to-locate-missing-teen-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate missing teen \u2013 Lake Macquarie&#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-8257","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\/8257","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=8257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}