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Cops: Carol Stream Man Made Phony 9-1-1 Call to Evade Us

External News Source May 24, 2012 Industry

By Josh Stockinger, Chicago Daily Herald

A Carol Stream man is facing felony charges for calling 911 and falsely reporting a man with a gun in an effort to avoid his own arrest, police said Tuesday.

Terrell Wilson, 22, is accused of making the call about 2 a.m. Friday as officers waited with a warrant for his arrest outside a restaurant he frequents on the village’s north side.

The plan was aborted when 911 dispatchers took a report of an armed man involved in a domestic disturbance at another location, Carol Stream police Cmdr. Ken George said. He said Wilson was arrested the next day and later confessed he called in the phony report.

“He said the only way he could get away was to call 911,” George said. “All the officers responded, and he took off.”

Wilson, of the 100 block of Elk Trail, was arrested Saturday after Carol Stream police pulled over a vehicle in which he was passenger. He picked up an additional charge after trying to prevent officers from identifying him during the stop, George said.

Court records show Wilson has prior arrests on charges of theft, battery and obstructing identification. Police said he was being sought on a warrant out of Kane County but the specific charge was clear.

Wilson remained in the DuPage County jail Tuesday on $15,000 bail.

Copyright © 2012 LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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