{"id":2164,"date":"2015-05-13T08:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=2164"},"modified":"2015-05-13T08:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T22:39:47","slug":"police-appeal-for-information-after-lewd-act-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/police-appeal-for-information-after-lewd-act-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal for information after lewd act &#8211; Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b>Police have released an image of a man they believe can assist with their inquiries into an incident where a man performed a lewd act in front of two children at Waratah last week.<\/p>\n<p>About 3.15pm on Thursday 7 May 2015, a man approached two children, both aged 12.<\/p>\n<p>Police have been told the man exposed himself and then performed a lewd act in front of the children.<\/p>\n<p>The offender then fled from the area and police were contacted.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended a short time later but could not locate the man. The children were not injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have obtained a CCTV image of a man they believe may be able to assist them with their inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>The man in the image is described as being of Caucasian appearance and between 30 and 40 years old. He had a medium complexion, average height and slim build.<\/p>\n<p>He is described as wearing a dark blue hooded jacket, white shorts, heavy shoes, a red peaked baseball cap and was carrying a blue bag.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1 800 333 000.<\/p>\n<p>Callers to Crime Stoppers can remain anonymous and a reward of up to $1000 is payable for information which leads to an arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released an image of a man they believe can assist with their inquiries into an incident where a man performed a lewd act in front of two children at Waratah last week. About 3.15pm on Thursday 7 May 2015, a man approached two children, both aged 12. Police have been told the man &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/police-appeal-for-information-after-lewd-act-newcastle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police appeal for information after lewd act &#8211; Newcastle&#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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}