Maybe he just needed someone to talk to.
For the second time in as many weeks, a 64-year-old Milledgeville man was arrested and charged with unlawful conduct during a 911 call.
Officers responded to the Dogwood Retirement Apartments on April 24 after Victor Jerome Washington “called 911 on a recorded line 12 times without an active emergency.” Washington had “been warned multiple times to stop calling 911 when he does not have an active emergency.”
Then, on May 1, Washington picked up the phone and started calling his favorite number again, this time giving dispatchers a heads up that “something bad would happen in five days” and that “God wanted him to send a message.”
Officers again responded to the Dogwood apartments, and Washington again was handcuffed and arrested.
Unlawful conduct during a 911 call, according to Georgia code, covers four different scenarios and topics – “vulgar or profane language with the intent to intimidate,” “making a false report,” “harassing a communications officers,” as well as “fails to hang up or disengage the connection for the intended purpose of interfering with or disrupting 911 services.”