{"id":109698,"date":"2021-02-24T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=109698"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T21:37:12","slug":"oxford-police-investigating-prank-phone-call-that-resulted-in-officers-being-dispatched-and-schools-locked-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-police-investigating-prank-phone-call-that-resulted-in-officers-being-dispatched-and-schools-locked-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Police Investigating Prank Phone Call That Resulted in Officers Being Dispatched and Schools Locked Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statement from the Oxford, Mississippi Police Department:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oxford Police Department continues to investigate a potential prank call that resulted in officers being dispatched to\u00a0 investigate a reported domestic violence call.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, around 1:30 pm the Oxford Police Department received a call requesting assistance. As our dispatchers gathered information, it was determined that the call appeared to be a\u00a0 domestic violence situation in progress involving a weapon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the nature of the call and proximity to one\u00a0\u00a0of our schools, the <strong>Oxford School District<\/strong> and <strong>School Resource Officers<\/strong> responded quickly to follow their\u00a0lockdown procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once officers arrived on scene, it was determined that no incident had occurred in our city and the all-clear\u00a0was given to release the lockdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Investigators along with dispatchers began to investigate the origin of\u00a0 the call. At this time, we are working with agencies in other states to assist us in locating the caller.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After speaking with multiple agencies and checking locations in their jurisdictions we do not believe this to be\u00a0an actual event but rather a prank call. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calls such as these should never happen as they place our public and\u00a0 law enforcement in danger. This is a matter that will not be taken lightly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are actively investigating this\u00a0 incident and working with prosecutors to resolve this case. We will continue to update our public as we gather\u00a0 more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement from the Oxford, Mississippi Police Department: Oxford Police Department continues to investigate a potential prank call that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1007,"featured_media":109702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[5,4,2092,5309,1128,18193,18192,18194],"class_list":["post-109698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-oxford-school-district","tag-police","tag-prank-call","tag-prank-phone-call","tag-school-resource-officers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PrankCall.png?fit=254%2C177&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}