Coast Guard Says Distress Call From Likely Hoax
Ssearch cost more than $38,000
The Associated Press
July 24, 2008, 11:48 AM PDT
The Coast Guard says that a distress call
from a young girl who identified herself only as "Kelsey" was
probably a hoax.
Shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday, a caller who said she was a
6-year-old girl talked of somebody named "Kelly" in the water and
"not waking up." Then the transmission ended.
The Coast Guard deployed a helicopter and a small boat to the
waters around Fox Island in south Puget Sound in response.
The Coast Guard says that if the call was hoax, whoever did it
could face six years in prison, a $250,000 fine and possible
reimbursement of the search costs. Making a hoax call is federal
felony.
Tuesday's search cost more than $38,000.
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