Why Homeland Security is Interested in Fake 911 Call

Detroit medics responding to a 911 emergency call expected to find a woman in the throes of a heart attack Tuesday.

Instead, they were caught in a web of deceit that has attracted the attention of Department of Homeland Security agents, WJBK, Channel 2, reports.

The call Tuesday seemed routine enough. But as the medics attended to a woman on the plaza on Crane Street near Gratiot Avenue, a man she was with casually walked to the front of the ambulance rig and reportedly began helping himself to whatever he could find, including a cell phone belonging to one of the technicians.

The medics realized they had been had and began chasing the man. He and the woman who allegedly faked her heart attack were both apprehended and arrested. It’s unclear what charges they face.

The timing of their caper was suspicious to Homeland Security officials, who want to determine if there’s a connection between the fake emergency call and a robbery of the agency’s undercover officers earlier in the day.

A thief or thieves reportedly broke into the officer’s unmarked car as it was parked near a deli on Mack Avenue and stole a weapon.