A 36-year-old New York City man has been arrested on a false public alarm charge for allegedly repeatedly calling police departments and a community crisis hotline in New Jersey and claiming he was sexually assaulting a child or was about to while on the phone, officials in Bergen County said Monday.
John LaForgia, a security guard from Staten Island, allegedly made more than 130 similar phone calls to law enforcement agencies and crisis hotlines in various jurisdictions, including New Jersey and New York, since Feb. 1, prosecutors said.
The charge stems from a Feb. 15 case in which the cyber crimes unit within the Bergen County prosecutor’s office
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