Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Hunter Region since last week.
\nVainenooroa Tuaratini (known as \u2018Scotty\u2019), aged 25, was last seen about 3am on Saturday 9 December 2020, on Bridge Street, Muswellbrook.
\nHe hasn\u2019t been seen since.
\nOfficers from the Hunter Valley Police District were notified of his disappearance later that morning and commenced inquiries into his whereabouts.
\nPolice and his family have concerns for Vainenooroa\u2019s welfare due to a medical condition.
\nVainenooroa is described as being of Pacific Islander appearance, about 175cm tall, of solid build, with brown eyes and short black hair.
\nWhen last seen, he was wearing green camouflage cargo shorts and a faded green t-shirt.
\nVainenooroa is known to frequent the Belmore and Lakemba areas.
\nAnyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Hunter Region since last week. Vainenooroa Tuaratini (known as \u2018Scotty\u2019), aged 25, was last seen about 3am on Saturday 9 December 2020, on Bridge Street, Muswellbrook. He hasn\u2019t been seen since. Officers from the Hunter Valley Police District were notified of his … Continue reading “Appeal to find missing man – Muswellbrook”<\/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-9674","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\/9674","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=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}