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Knuckleheads
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Here's what not to do with your one jailhouse call: Dial 911 and report you are trapped – inside the jail.
That unfortunate bit of decision-making brought even more charges against Carly A. Houston of Chicago over the weekend, the Naperville ( Ill. ) Sun reports .
The newspaper says Naperville police took the 29-year-old woman to the police station after she allegedly got into a dispute with a taxicab driver early Sunday morning.
A police officer supplied Houston with a telephone and told her she could make one call to find someone who could come to the station and post bail for her, the Sun reports .
But instead of calling a friend or relative, Naperville police Cmdr. Mike Anders said Houston used her allotted call to dial 911. She told Naperville police dispatchers she needed help and complained that she was "trapped inside the detention facility."
The Sun reported Tuesday that Houston allegedly "yelled, screamed, cursed and extended (both) middle fingers at the cab driver and threatened bodily harm" after the driver asked Houston for specific directions to her intended destination.
Cmdr. Anders told the newspaper that the cab driver pulled over at a gas station, and that witnesses there were "alarmed and disturbed" by Houston 's behavior. Police say Houston was arrested after she allegedly refused to pay the taxi fare.
Houston made her 911 call shortly after 3 a.m. while she was at the police station for processing, according to the Sun.
Houston faces misdemeanor charges of making a false 911 report, theft of labor or services, criminal trespass to land and disorderly conduct.
Houston was released on bail and was set to be arraigned April 20 in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton , Ill.
This was apparently the latest addition to the annals of strange 911 calls. Earlier this month, TruTV.com reported on a man who allegedly called 911 from a Boynton Beach, Fla., bar to complain his bartender was a "fake."
That unfortunate bit of decision-making brought even more charges against Carly A. Houston of Chicago over the weekend, the Naperville ( Ill. ) Sun reports .
The newspaper says Naperville police took the 29-year-old woman to the police station after she allegedly got into a dispute with a taxicab driver early Sunday morning.
A police officer supplied Houston with a telephone and told her she could make one call to find someone who could come to the station and post bail for her, the Sun reports .
But instead of calling a friend or relative, Naperville police Cmdr. Mike Anders said Houston used her allotted call to dial 911. She told Naperville police dispatchers she needed help and complained that she was "trapped inside the detention facility."
The Sun reported Tuesday that Houston allegedly "yelled, screamed, cursed and extended (both) middle fingers at the cab driver and threatened bodily harm" after the driver asked Houston for specific directions to her intended destination.
Cmdr. Anders told the newspaper that the cab driver pulled over at a gas station, and that witnesses there were "alarmed and disturbed" by Houston 's behavior. Police say Houston was arrested after she allegedly refused to pay the taxi fare.
Houston made her 911 call shortly after 3 a.m. while she was at the police station for processing, according to the Sun.
Houston faces misdemeanor charges of making a false 911 report, theft of labor or services, criminal trespass to land and disorderly conduct.
Houston was released on bail and was set to be arraigned April 20 in DuPage County Circuit Court in Wheaton , Ill.
This was apparently the latest addition to the annals of strange 911 calls. Earlier this month, TruTV.com reported on a man who allegedly called 911 from a Boynton Beach, Fla., bar to complain his bartender was a "fake."
