A Florida woman allegedly decided a denied Jell-O shot was enough of an emergency to call 911 three times, before deputies say the booze complaint ended with her in cuffs.
Diane Blalock, 68, was arrested after Marion County deputies said she repeatedly contacted emergency dispatchers from the No Where Bar in Ocala because staff would not serve her the gelatin-packed drink.
According to the arrest affidavit, Blalock was not reporting a threat, injury or crime. She allegedly wanted a deputy to help her get alcohol from the bar.
Dispatchers tried to reach her by phone but were unsuccessful, and a deputy was sent to the business. While he was on the way, authorities said Blalock called 911 again.
The deputy arrived to find her seated outside at a table. Blalock said she had come to the bar with a friend, but the friend had already left.
Her complaint about the Jell-O shot then shifted into a request for a ride home, with Blalock telling the deputy that medical issues kept her from walking. The deputy told her law enforcement could not take her home.
The encounter took another turn when the bar owner said Blalock had already been issued a trespass warning. Deputies confirmed the warning and placed her under arrest.
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A search after the arrest allegedly turned up a small amount of marijuana and two pipes. Because Blalock told deputies she had been drinking and had recently smoked marijuana, Marion County Fire Rescue evaluated her before she was taken to jail.
Once she was medically cleared, Blalock was booked into the Marion County Jail on charges of misuse of 911 services, trespassing and possession of not more than 20 grams of marijuana, according to the affidavit.
The strange Florida bar call was not the only recent case in which authorities say emergency dispatchers were dragged into a bizarre non-emergency.
In West Virginia, deputies said a man called 911 over zombies, ghosts and a UFO at his home.
Clinton Wayne Nelan, 33, of Elkins, was arrested after Randolph County deputies responded to his residence following several calls to the emergency line.
Four deputies went to the home after Nelan allegedly reported the unusual mix of undead, supernatural and extraterrestrial threats.
Once there, investigators said the claims did not stop. “Upon arrival, Mr. Nelan made several false claims, including that he was being harassed by numerous individuals and that he was a police officer from Louisiana,” the sheriff’s office said.
Authorities said an investigation showed Nelan was not a police officer and had misused the emergency system by making false reports.
He was charged with misuse of a local emergency telephone system and impersonating a law enforcement officer.
Nelan was booked into Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a cash-only $2,500 bond, according to online records.
Back in Florida, another police call led to the arrest of a 79-year-old man whose neighbors said they had grown tired of seeing him expose himself around their apartment complex.
Hollywood police arrested Tyrone James Causey after officers were called to the complex for the second day in a row.
Neighbors told police they were “increasingly concerned and frustrated with his continued behavior,” according to local reporting.
Causey was accused of making lewd gestures during his walks around the property, including “thrusting his penis” at a female neighbor’s doorbell camera.
When a female officer went to Causey’s apartment to question him, she wrote that he answered the door wearing a “G-string thong.”
Causey allegedly insisted that he had “a right to walk around naked under Florida Statute 800.001″ and that it was “only illegal in parks, not in public.”
The officer said she explained that he could not legally walk around in public exposing himself.
During the conversation, Causey allegedly put on lipstick, “began touching his penis” and told the officer to “jump rope for me, baby doll.”
Police said Causey also claimed he walked around the apartment complex naked because he believed he was allowed to do so and did not realize he was being recorded.
Investigators said five neighbors reported seeing him expose himself. He was arrested on five indecent exposure charges, and a judge found probable cause for standard misdemeanor counts.
A second Florida exposure case later unfolded outside a Taco Bell, where deputies said a man’s late-night fast-food run ended with an arrest — and the discovery of a pet fish in his backpack.
Flagler County deputies were called to the restaurant shortly before 1 a.m. after employees reported a man near a side door with what the sheriff’s office jokingly described as his “chimichanga out.”
Deputies identified the man as 28-year-old Brandon Irizarry. When authorities arrived, they said Irizarry was still outside the restaurant with multiple pairs of pants pulled down. Investigators said he initially appeared unaware deputies were there before trying to cover himself.
After Irizarry was taken into custody, deputies inventoried his belongings and found a live betta fish swimming inside a plastic container in his backpack.
The fish was nicknamed “Baja Blast” by deputies and transferred to the Flagler County Humane Society. Shelter staff later said the fish was “doing great.”
Sheriff Rick Staly leaned into the Taco Bell theme after the arrest. “In Flagler County, if you can’t keep your business inside your pants, you’ll find yourself at the Green Roof Inn, swimming with different company than your fish,” Staly said.
Irizarry was arrested on a charge of unlawful exposure of sexual organs and taken to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility. He was being held on $5,000 bond, according to officials.
The sheriff’s office also issued a warning that a late-night Taco Bell trip should end “with a receipt, maybe some regret, but not a booking number.”
