Prank phone calls land soldier in jail

An active-duty Army man was arrested in Chiefland Tuesday after making seven 911 calls in which he pretended to be the victim of a stabbing.

Twenty-two-year-old Alexander Leroy Shelton, Fort Riley, Kan., first called 911 at 1:33 a.m., but he would not tell the Levy County Sheriff's Department where he was, a report from the Sheriff's Office said.

Officials said Shelton, calling from a cellular phone, claimed to be being stabbed in the neck by a black man.

He hung up, but called back minutes later with a low and gurgling voice, authorities said.

In the 11 minutes it took a sheriff's deputy to track Shelton down, he made another five calls to 911.

Initially, authorities said they had trouble finding Shelton. The Sheriff Department's Geo-Com screen, a device that shows the locations of 911 calls coming from landlines and cell phones, is limited when calls are made from pre-paid boost phones.

But authorities, provided with the general vicinity, found Shelton and questioned him about what they suspected him of doing.

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