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According to the sheriff’s office, the mother of a two-year-old and a male suspect were taken into custody on many charges after the toddler went into cardiac arrest with narcotics in his system. 

On January 4, a 23-year-old mom and a man, also 24, were at their home in Marion, North Carolina. The woman’s 2-year-old son was also at the residence.  

It was reported that the youngster went into cardiac arrest. 

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A woman has been accused of placing over 11,000 calls to the local and county emergency communications centers and harassing the staff when they answered.  

51-year-old Carla Jefferson lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and according to an arrest report, she is currently unemployed. She has a lengthy criminal record in Pinellas County. She also served a two-year sentence for a prior conviction. 

The authorities reported that since the beginning of 2022, they have received over 11,000 calls from a woman they identified as Jefferson. The caller contacted the emergency communications centers for the St. Petersburg Police Department and the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. The calls reportedly came from two different phone numbers registered to Jefferson. 

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A Florida man was arrested after allegedly placing several calls to 911 with requests that the authorities release the drug lord El Chapo and incarcerate President Biden. 

Early in the morning on May 8, someone later identified as 29-year-old Jacob Ryan Philbeck placed a call to 911, and Pasco County Sheriff’s Office deputies spoke to the man. 

According to reports, the caller wanted to let the authorities know that the drug lord El Chapo should be freed from incarceration. Philbeck also reportedly informed them that President Joe Biden should be placed in prison. 

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A man from Covina was detained early last week when the authorities allegedly discovered he was advertising N-95 masks for sale at a price that they believed was much higher than the value of the product with an intent to unfairly profit off the COVID-19 pandemic.

After they were given a tip, Baldwin Park Police Department investigators reported that they found two Craigslist advertisements posted by a seller offering N-95 face masks for $300 for a box of 20. They asserted that the price of $15 per mask seemed high compared to the assumed value of the items, and it was believed that the seller was purposely exploiting the public based on the recent high demand for the product.

The authorities decided to arrange a sting operation and they contacted the seller through the advertisement and asked to buy a box of the face masks.

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A man from Georgia was apprehended last week after it was allegedly discovered that he was selling large amounts of cocaine base out of a hotel room in Vermont.

Leroy Brown Jr. is a 41-year-old resident of McDonough, Georgia.

In December 2019, the Southeastern Vermont Drug Task Force began looking into Brown’s activities connected to drug sales taking place in a room at the Econo Lodge in Brattleboro, Vermont. Approximately one month later the F.B.I. teamed up with the agency in their efforts to uncover the purported suspicious acts taking place.

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When a man in Walmart reportedly coughed on a patron on purpose and stated that he had the coronavirus the authorities arrested and charged him for the poorly received prank.

26-year-old Robert Eugene Heffner Jr. lives in Belmont, North Carolina.

Governor Roy Cooper issued a statewide order to the people of North Carolina stating that they must adhere to social distancing.

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An Indiana man who got into a single-vehicle car accident was accused of driving while under the influence of alcohol in addition to violating the state-issued stay-at-home order. 

20-year-old Bloomington resident Joseph Baker was reportedly out until the very early morning hours on March 25.

While Baker was reportedly operating a Ford F-150, the vehicle veered off the roadway and smashed into the surrounding trees.

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A Vermont man is being charged for allegations that he was using an electronic device connected to the internet while driving, causing his vehicle to make an impact with a police car parked in the emergency lane.

Last Thursday afternoon, the driver of a vehicle who was having car troubles pulled to the side of the Interstate and called for police assistance so he would be safe from the surrounding traffic.

A Vermont State Police officer dispatched to the location and parked on the shoulder with his emergency flasher on so he could lend his assistance to the person experiencing the mechanical mishap.

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A man who was allegedly under the influence was also accused of transporting two women under the guise that he was an Uber driver.

Last week, two women had gone out for drinks and ended up at the Cookout in Nashville, when they decided to hail an Uber so they wouldn’t be on the road after imbibing.

A vehicle approached and the women got inside, and both took a seat in the back.

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When 911 received an abundance of calls from a woman reporting that her boyfriend was being mean to her, the police alleged that she exploited the system by falsifying her need for help.

Last week 40-year-old Mary Ann Parrish and her boyfriend were apparently not seeing eye-to-eye, and the woman was reported as calling 911 half a dozen times in a four-hour period to let them know that he was acting like a jerk.

When a deputy dispatched to the Lacoochee, Florida, home to investigate the reason behind the alleged barrage of calls for emergency assistance it was reported that Parrish again notified 911 while he was already at the location.

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