The incident cost upwards of $18,000 too...sad that someone abuses something that it set up to save lives...and he was on the phone with 38 minutes convincing dispatchers he has murdered someone...the poor couple at the root of this had no idea other than to be surrounded by a SWAT team...BD
A Washington State teenager is facing 18 years in prison on charges that he used his PC to access Orange County, California's 911 emergency response system and convinced the sheriffs department into storming an area couples home with a heavily armed SWAT team. Within minutes, fire, police and a helicopter team had been dispatched to the home of the Lake Forest, California couple, whom authorities declined to identify.
The technique that Ellis used “doesn’t require any special skills,” said Jim Amormino, [cq] a spokesman with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “The way he did it: I am not computer savvy, but I can do it.”Authorities said that Ellis had made nearly 200 fake 911 calls to dispatch systems in California, Arizona, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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