After a man was charged on Thursday with making a false 911 call, the responding dispatcher with Kanawha County Metro 911 is giving credit to new technology and a good instinct in being able to quickly realize the call was fake.
WCHS TV said Justin Withrow was the senior dispatcher who responded.
Deputies were able to arrest Matthew Hammack of Charleston for making a false report about an armed robbery after he made a call inside a car when the driver was getting ready to go through a sobriety check. This all happened in the South Charleston area when a deputy pulled a car over for speeding on the Montrose exit ramp of Interstate 64. Withrow said new mapping technology that was just upgraded in the spring allowed him to quickly see where the suspect was and it wasn’t the location for the reported robbery. Falsely reporting carries a sentence of up to six months.