A truth-challenged Ohio woman pleaded guilty this month to calling 911 hundreds of times over fake emergencies for the thrill of getting countless ambulance rides, prosecutors said.
Kesha Kennedy placed a massive strain on emergency services in the city of Zanesville, diverting critical resources away from people in actual need, with the bogus calls dating back to 2020, the Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Kesha Kennedy pleaded guilty to charges this month over her serial 911 abuse. Muskingum County Prosecutor's Office
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In one case, the South Zanesville Fire Department was unable to respond to a call involving a person who couldn’t breathe — and who later died — because they were occupied transporting the 34-year-old fabulist, the prosecutor’s office said.
Kennedy called 911 nearly 400 times, sometimes several times a day, and would complain about various illnesses.
The prosecutor’s office said she effectively used “first responders for her personal entertainment for ambulance rides to the hospital,” but once she was there, doctors gave her a clean bill of health.
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Each transport and visit was footed by taxpayer dollars through Medicaid.
A forensic psychologist who evaluated Kennedy said she demonstrated “a factitious disorder, which means that she’s a liar,” Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor John Litle said in court.
She pleaded guilty on July 12 to charges of disrupting public services, false alarms, both felonies, and another 25 misdemeanor counts of misuse of 911 systems.
Kennedy’s bizarre behavior has been on display in at least four other counties in Ohio, including in Licking County where she pleaded guilty to misusing the 911 system in 2023, prosecutors said.
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Kesha Kennedy placed a massive strain on emergency services in the city of Zanesville, diverting critical resources away from people in actual need, with the bogus calls dating back to 2020, the Muskingum County Prosecutor’s Office said.
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In one case, the South Zanesville Fire Department was unable to respond to a call involving a person who couldn’t breathe — and who later died — because they were occupied transporting the 34-year-old fabulist, the prosecutor’s office said.
Kennedy called 911 nearly 400 times, sometimes several times a day, and would complain about various illnesses.
The prosecutor’s office said she effectively used “first responders for her personal entertainment for ambulance rides to the hospital,” but once she was there, doctors gave her a clean bill of health.
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Each transport and visit was footed by taxpayer dollars through Medicaid.
A forensic psychologist who evaluated Kennedy said she demonstrated “a factitious disorder, which means that she’s a liar,” Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor John Litle said in court.
She pleaded guilty on July 12 to charges of disrupting public services, false alarms, both felonies, and another 25 misdemeanor counts of misuse of 911 systems.
Kennedy’s bizarre behavior has been on display in at least four other counties in Ohio, including in Licking County where she pleaded guilty to misusing the 911 system in 2023, prosecutors said.
Woman calls 911 nearly 400 times over bogus emergencies for ambulance rides: ‘She’s a liar’
A forensic psychologist who evaluated Kennedy said she demonstrated “a factitious disorder, which means that she’s a liar,” Muskingum County Assistant Prosecutor John Litle said in court.
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