{"id":783858,"date":"2026-07-07T02:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783858\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:15:12","slug":"police-warn-public-not-to-approach-man-sought-in-derwent-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783858\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn public not to approach man sought in Derwent Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasmania Police are continuing to search for a man last seen in the Derwent Valley, almost 24 hours after an allegedly stolen car was found abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said officers were \u201cseeking the whereabouts of Joel Cowen\u201d following a search in the Uxbridge area yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoel was last seen in the Derwent Valley area and possibly trying to hitch hike on Plenty Valley Road between Huonville and the Derwent Valley,\u201d the spokesperson told Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone sees Joel, or a man trying to hitch hike in this area, they are asked not to approach and contact police on 131 444.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The search began in the Uxbridge area yesterday after officers tracked the car from Lonnavale towards Mount Lloyd around 11:55am.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"69831\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/d152f9f7-6n4c917rhp539po_27a7r_thztc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d152f9f7-6n4c917rhp539po_27a7r_thztc.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"d152f9f7-6n4c917rhp539po_27a7r_thztc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Joel Cowen was last seen in the Derwent Valley area. Image \/ File&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/d152f9f7-6n4c917rhp539po_27a7r_thztc-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/d152f9f7-6n4c917rhp539po_27a7r_thztc-1024x682.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d152f9f7-6n4c917rhp539po_27a7r_thztc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/>Joel Cowen was last seen in the Derwent Valley area. Image \/ File<\/p>\n<p>The car was later found abandoned at Uxbridge. Police believe the driver then fled on foot.<\/p>\n<p>A police helicopter was used as part of the search.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 131 444 or Crime Stoppers anonymously, quoting 45-07072026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tasmania Police are continuing to search for a man last seen in the Derwent Valley, almost 24 hours&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-783858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}