Police investigate false emergency calls from crisis line, Gary IN
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Medical EmergencyAs discussed during the dispatch call, officers responded near Pennsylvania Street in Gary after receiving repeated false reports of shootings and stabbings from a crisis line with no traceable number.
Audio|Heard on: Lake County Public Safety
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01:8
Transcript:
00:00
For reference, I'm calling near Pennsylvania Street.
00:04
We've been getting calls all day yesterday and this morning from the previous shift and our shift here today with someone calling saying someone got shot, someone got stabbed, and now dead.
00:14
If their units are up, I have them close it out on them to locate.
00:19
10-4, 10-4.
00:20
629 traffic, Adam L, where you copy?
00:23
John units, we have a parking complaint coming in near Oakwood Court.
00:27
Caller advising someone parked in the middle of the court.
00:32
It's going to be a white Chevy Tahoe.
00:35
One of them probably is looking around.
00:36
No, there were copies.
00:38
Copy.
00:39
381, he was going to be 39.
00:41
Date of birth (number withheld).
00:44
All right, ten four.
00:46
One four, St.
00:47
Joseph, do you have a number where the call is coming from? Or is it coming from that center again?
00:54
21-118, Delaware 1028.
00:57
118. It's coming from the crisis line.
01:00
I tried to get the call taker to get the phone number that they're texting from, but they're using an online base.
01:05
So we don't have a phone number for the person that keeps calling these men.
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Location mentioned:
Pennsylvania St, Gary, IN 46409
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