ESCATAWPA, Miss. (AP) — A man trying to call a news station to complain about not getting a FEMA trailer after Hurricane Katrina accidentally dialed 911 and was charged with making methamphetamine after police arrived, authorities said.
Curtiss Randall Coleman was trying to get the number for Biloxi's WLOX-TV on Wednesday just before the 6 p.m. newscast , investigators said. He misdialed when trying to reach directory information.
When he hung up on the emergency dispatcher, the sheriff's department was sent to the home to see if anyone was in need of assistance .
No one answered the door, so officers broke in and found a methamphetamine lab.
"It was a calamity of errors on Mr. Coleman's part," said Sgt. Curtis Spears, commander of the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County.
Along with the Colemans, narcotics agents also arrested Erin Paula Oliver, 35, of Moss Point, and Leslie Renee McMahon, 27, of Ocean Springs. All four were charged with conspiracy to manufacture meth.
A person who answered the phone at the Jackson County jail declined to say whether Coleman and the others had attorneys.