Multiple 911 hang-ups traced to store phone in toilet, Winona MN
Other Non-Crime EventPolice responded to repeated 911 hang-up calls coming from a store near Line Street. Upon arrival, officers found no one present, but a phone was heard making noise in a toilet. The property manager assisted the search, and people inside denied making calls. No emergency or crime was found.
Audio|Source: Winona City/County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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LAC40?
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Go ahead.
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Out of the nine, we want to hang up.
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Mapping at Ultra near Line Street and it's coming from the store, phone number.
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There's no voice contact.
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Yes.
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Circuit three copies.
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So far.
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513 locations.
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A person.
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513, if you want to check the house again,
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I'm not seeing anyone in these buildings.
00:43
Okay,
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for. Dispatch sent me a message that they thought they heard of mail muffling and then a toilet flush.
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Cover.
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513, the person that manages the property is here, he's going to come out to the door with you.
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525, just information.
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I'm on a 911 call again to 911 only phone.
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I can hear people talking in the background.
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I'm (name withheld), please.
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(name withheld), John,
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number withheld, then there's a small G.
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George at the end.
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That's going to be the property manager.
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Debbie.
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That comes back to a Wortland-Holstein's business that'll lose in.
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That's all right.
02:02
I can hear somebody speaking Spanish about, talking about 911.
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All right, I think 513 on the property manager are in the house.
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Trevor.
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Kay,
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I just made contact to somebody inside of here.
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He's saying everyone pretends no one called 9-1-1.
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September, I can hear you talking through the phone if you want to find that phone.
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513 only says that's still an open line.
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It is still an open line.
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4-yearly came off.
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852.
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513, do you want me to stay on it or can I disconnect?
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Just stay on and we're trying to find the phone here.
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Go on. Go on.
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525 Lacey, can you hear us on the phone?
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I can't anymore.
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Everything kind of went silent just about a minute ago, so I'm not sure what's wrong with it.
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So,
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I'm not sure what's wrong with it.
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3rd Hall.
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8 to 3.
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40 LACC. All right.
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Everything's secure and there's no cars here.
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We'll be 10-8[1].
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853.
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L.E.C.33.
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Go ahead.
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Have a delayed theft, a quick trip home road, number withheld home road.
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They have the report ready.
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Telfort.
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Hi, 25 LAC.
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There's a phone in the toilet and we couldn't get it to shut off because it's all waterlogged, so hopefully it stops calling in, but everything there's tend to.
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Step 4.
Police codes explained
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10-8: In service / Available for calls
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Winona, MN 55987
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