False 911 Calls a True Cry for Help, According to Police

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CLINTON -- In Harry Nixon's mind, the phony 911 calls, the strange little fires set with burning rags and the bogus call about an armed robbery all amounted to a single cry for help, police say. And police responded Wednesday afternoon when they tracked the New Haven man to a grocery store parking lot and arrested him.

For three weeks, Clinton emergency dispatchers have been receiving sporadic calls on the 911 emergency line, beginning with "hang-ups" and progressing to calls about fires that proved to be false.

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False 911 Calls a True Cry for Help, According to Police

Then the fire calls achieved a bizarre kind of reality, with firefighters discovering that th...

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