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Can You Go To Jail For Prank Calling 911. If you make a prank call to a recipient who is out of state you can find yourself facing federal charges. Police show up to kids house for prank calling 911. People sometimes call 911 to falsely claim an emergency or to deliberately hang up. So some states make it a serious offense to prank call 911 or call for non-emergencies.
Block on Trumps Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court. When you prank call 911 there will be a thousand dollar fine and the police would have to place you under arrest and take you to jail for 1 year. In Virginia for example making a false report can earn you a 2500 a year in jail or both. Individuals also will call 911 to falsely report an emergency also known as swatting If you call 911 in Reno Nevada falsely describing an emergency or a crime in progress in order to get the police or other first responders to go to the scene or if you call for a clearly frivolous reason you can face serious criminal penalties. Three years county jail a 10000 fine. A report will be taken over the phone.
Some of these calls are referred to in policing circles as children playing on the phone.
So you better not do. Although making prank calls to friends or family might not result in reports to the police. Tyler Barris called 911 almost two years ago to report a hostage situation that turned out to be fake. Block on Trumps Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court. Since the federal government regulates all telecommunications crossing state lines state police may ask for assistance from federal investigative agencies who have more resources to investigate the motive or individual behind the call. And almost 4-thousand of them came from just two phone numbers.