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Hoax 911 Call Reporting Home Invasion Leads To Evacuations
February 21, 2012
A hoax 911 call reporting a home invasion in Escambia County led to the evacuation of several homes during the early morning hours Tuesday.
At 3:25 a.m., the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from a female stating that people were in inside her home in the 7100 block of Rampart Way shooting at other occupants. The phone number was traced to an out of town phone number.
Deputies responded to the 7100 block of Rampart Way where dispatchers were able to triangulate the call to a possible address. After deputies checked three different homes, it was determined there was no crime occurring.
“Several families were evacuated from their homes as a precaution and for safety due to the violent allegations. As dispatchers continued to track the phone number it was discovered this was hoax and that this phone number has been used in several other calls like this,” Deputy Matt Baxter, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office, said.
Sheriff’s investigators are still working to determine the source of the call.
If you have any information on the crime, contact the Sheriff’s Office at (850) 436-9620 or Crime Stoppers at (850) 433-STOP
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5 Responses to “Hoax 911 Call Reporting Home Invasion Leads To Evacuations”
Even if they track down the phone number, they can just throw away the phone
and say it was stolen. I find it hard to believe with the amount of crimes that
go unsolved that this particular crime will come high on the list of cases
to crack..
Don’t get me wrong I WANT THEM FOUND AND PROSECUTED, but it amazes
me how many crimes here go unsolved, and some of them have real victims.
This crime is just stupid and no one was hurt except the tax payers, even
though so many were inconvenienced.
Well it will remain to be seen what priority this takes.
What kind of complete idiots do something like this?? Throw them in JAIL!!
This sort of behavior makes me blow a gasket. I hope the person/s doing this are punished to the max of the law. They will be caught. A great response from our Sheriff’s Deputies.
Making a call like that should have Severe penalties.. I’m talkin about no less than 5 years hard time with no chance of an early out.. I don’t think prisoners should have A/C, heat, blanket or TV either.
It is absolutely a blessing that the responding deputies were not diverted from an actual violent crime. I hope they catch the bogus caller and that the punishment is as severe as it can be for this hoax and the subsequent waste of resources.