Right name, wrong place.
A 20-year-old Ohio resident who wanted to protest against Canada’s mask mandate called an Ottawa police station on Monday to distract authorities with a bomb threat. The error he made in his call, however, was calling a station in Ottawa, Ohio, according to the Lima News.
Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Captain Brad Brubaker told the outlet the office’s dispatcher tried to determine what was going on and ran a trace on the call. When the trace was complete, they found the location of the call in the Akron, Ohio, area.
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“He called back a second time claiming he had been shot,” Brubaker said. “When he found out he was talking to Ohio and not Canada he said he hadn’t been shot but was simply trying to waste (Canadian authorities’) time and resources because he didn’t agree with their mask mandate.”
Brubaker also said the suspect admitted there was no bomb. The suspect apparently looked up a telephone number for police in Ottawa, Canada, and wound up calling the Ohio police instead, the outlet wrote. Brubaker told the outlet he thought that since the man was from Ohio, “the ‘419’ area code might have rung a bell.”
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The sheriff’s office contacted police in Ottawa, Ontario, in Canada to alert the authorities about the fake threat, Brubaker said. He told the outlet he is writing up a report to submit to a prosecutor, who will consider charges over the hoax calls.
