PLAINS TWP. \u2014 A Taylor man is accused of abusing the Luzerne County 911 system by twice calling authorities for a ride home Wednesday night after claiming he lost $400 at the Mohegan Pennsylvania casino.<\/p>\n
Police said John Roland Bartolacci, 63, first called 911 from the casino around 10 p.m. Wednesday requesting a \u201cride home to Taylor.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was advised that police, nor any emergency service, provide people with rides home.<\/p>\n
Investigators said he then identified himself to the dispatcher, saying police \u201cwere familiar\u201d with him and described what he was wearing, including a cowboy hat.<\/p>\n
After the 911 dispatcher advised Plains Twp. police about the nature of the request, police told the dispatcher to clear out the call and police did not respond.<\/p>\n
About 40 minutes later, police said they were dispatched to an area along Route 315 more than a mile from the casino for the same male requesting a ride home to Taylor, police said.<\/p>\n
The dispatcher once again advised Bartolacci that emergency responders do not provide people with rides home. But this time, police responded.<\/p>\n
Police said they located Bartolacci in the area of 1546 Route 315 and asked how they could help him. He said he needed a ride home because he lost $400 at the casino and didn\u2019t have any money to pay for a ride, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Bartolacci acknowledged he was not experiencing a medical episode that required police, fire or EMS attention and reiterated he just wanted a ride home.<\/p>\n
Officers took Bartolacci into custody and located a half burnt marijuana cigarette in his possession, police said.<\/p>\n
He was charged with improper communications with 911 systems, disorderly conduct and possession of marijuana. After his arraignment, he was released on unsecured bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLAINS TWP. \u2014 A Taylor man is accused of abusing the Luzerne County 911 system by twice calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,803,139,28,7513,178,180,179,4168,181],"class_list":["post-260819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-plains-township","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-taylor","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}