{"id":8845,"date":"2020-10-23T01:49:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8845"},"modified":"2020-10-23T01:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T01:49:06","slug":"appeal-for-information-after-child-approach-medowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/23\/appeal-for-information-after-child-approach-medowie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for information after child approach \u2013 Medowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for information after reports of a child approach in the Hunter region yesterday.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">5.40pm<\/a> (Thursday 23 October 2020), a seven-year-old boy was walking in Willow Close, Medowie, when a man riding an orange and black motorbike pulled up beside him.<br \/>\nPolice have been told the male rider asked the boy to get on the bike. He refused and walked away. The man then conducted a U-turn and drove out of Willow Close in an unknown direction.<br \/>\nThe incident was reported to officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District who commenced an investigation.<br \/>\nAs inquiries continue, police would like to speak to a man who may be able to assist with their inquiries.<br \/>\nThe man is only described as having greyish coloured hair and wearing a khaki-coloured back-pack.<br \/>\nPolice are appealing to anyone who might have been in the Medowie area yesterday and either saw the motorbike or has dash-cam footage, to come forward.<br \/>\nInquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for information after reports of a child approach in the Hunter region yesterday. About 5.40pm (Thursday 23 October 2020), a seven-year-old boy was walking in Willow Close, Medowie, when a man riding an orange and black motorbike pulled up beside him. Police have been told the male rider asked the boy to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/10\/23\/appeal-for-information-after-child-approach-medowie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal for information after child approach \u2013 Medowie&#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-8845","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\/8845","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=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}