Jessieville man arrested after multiple calls to 911

A Jessieville man was arrested by Garland County Sheriff's deputies Saturday morning after allegedly making numerous unjustified calls to 911 despite repeated warnings.

Kenneth Winbern Gold, 54, of 6917 Highway 7 north, was taken into custody at his residence shortly after 10 a.m. on a misdemeanor charge of harassing communications, punishable by up to one year in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.

According to the affidavit, shortly before 9 a.m., GCSD deputy Joey Pate responded to the residence because Gold had allegedly been calling 911 repeatedly. When he arrived, Gold told Pate he wanted his wife to come back and wanted the deputy to go to Saline County and get her.

Pate asked him if he wanted to press charges against her because she allegedly slapped him and threw his crutches in the yard, but he said he didn’t want to press charges and had no visible injuries.

After continuing to decline to file charges, Pate left the residence, but got a call five minutes later and was dispatched there again. He told Gold not to call 911 unless he needed medical personnel or he would be charged with causing a false alarm along with harassing communications against the 911 operators.

Pate left the residence for a second time and about eight minutes later dispatch received a terminal message from Hot Springs Village police advising they had received four or five 911 calls from Gold and had a unit en route and were asking for assistance.

Pate noted a total of 17 calls to 911 were made by Gold over the course of about two hours.

When Pate and GCSD Cpl. Fred Hawthorn arrived on scene, Gold was standing on his porch and Pate told him he was under arrest. Gold allegedly said, “I’m not going nowhere,” but when Pate told him he “wasn’t giving him an option,” Gold “cussed a little bit” but then walked to the deputy’s unit.

He was later released on $1,000 bond and is set to appear Sept. 11 in district court.