[Scan-DC] Montgomery County and 911 Disconnects

[Jeff Krauss]

Montgomery County has been dispatching police to investigate 911 
disconnects for as long as I can remember.
In 1995 they discovered five dead in a Potomac house on Twining Lane 
after investigating a 911 disconnect.
http://www.bookrags.com/highbeam/five-found-slain-in-potomac-house-two-hb/
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-862391.html




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>Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:13:35 -0400
>From: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
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>(By the way, I've recently noticed that Montgomery County Police are 
>sending cars out on 911-disconnects, even after they make contact 
>and are told it was a misdial or something like that... and there 
>are at least three phones in the Gaithersburg district that have 
>automatic dialers that call them several times a day, but nothing is 
>being done about tracking down the phones and fixing the 
>problem.  And there's a 7-11 in the Montgomery Village shopping 
>center that has a Watkins Mill Road address, but it's consistently 
>dispatched as being on Montgomery Village Avenue and is that way in 
>their database.  Aaahh, if the general public ever knew about some 
>of the madness we scanner hobbyists hear, there sure would be a lot 
>of yelling...)
>
>DK