OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police have arrested a 27-year-old from rom Sennan Metropolis for calling for an ambulance greater than 200 occasions over the previous 12 months.
On Tuesday morning, the unnamed lady, of no recognized occupation, referred to as the quantity 119 to request emergency companies. Nonetheless, police arriving on the scene arrested her after studying her situation was nice, experiences the Sankei Shimbun (Oct. 22).
Upon her arrest on suspicion of obstruction of enterprise, the suspect denied the allegations. “I don’t bear in mind, however I simply referred to as as a result of I wasn’t feeling nicely,” she stated.
This was not the primary time she has made such a declare. In response to the Sennan Police Station, the lady referred to as for an ambulance 251 occasions between April 2023 and this month.
When she made the calls, she both falsely claimed to be unwell or she feigned being ailing by collapsing on the street, whereby she had a passersby make a name.
When ambulance crew members arrived in response to a passerby’s name, the lady refused to be transported. “I’m simply taking a break,” she stated. On some days, she occupied ambulance groups for as much as three hours.
Police say these actions had been a fraudulent obstruction of the work of ambulance groups on account of pointless dispatch requests.