crime & dispatch firegeezer on 14 Aug 2008 09:05 am
Heavy-Duty Hoax Caller Arrested in Dallas
A DALLAS, TEXAS MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED AFTER MAKING LITERALLY HUNDREDS of hoax 9-1-1 calls to the Dallas emergency center.
The 31-yr.-old man has been on a campaign of harassment against his family members because of several perceived acts against him. He claims, for example, that his sister posted several nude pictures of him on the internet. His family says that he is on medication for a schizophrenic mental condition. He denies that he is crazy and says that the fire marshals are just picking on him because they don’t want to properly investigate the false alarms.
He has allegedly been phoning in false calls to both police and fire for more than a year, but they have been subtle enough that there was never a suspicion that they were prank calls when they were received at the dispatch center.
When he finally came under suspicion, investigators traced back 235 hoax calls just since this past April. It took them three days to find him for an arrest because he went into hiding. They found him after he called in three false alarms in one day on Aug. 4.
The Dallas Morning News has all the details and full STORY.
