Earlier this week a Sedalia man was arrested for filing a false police report, but law enforcement officials say Michael James, 25, has an extensive history of making repeated fake 911 calls.
“So far we’ve found 61 calls (James) made since November,” said Sedalia Police Department Cmdr. David Woolery. “Quite a few of them were hang-ups but they started escalating into gun calls.”
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