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Don’t Have a Cow, Man

Sgt. Michael Davis, a police officer assigned to the Brunswick Glynn County (Ga.) Narcotics Enforcement Team, started getting threatening calls on his personal cell phone. Davis told the caller he almost certainly had the wrong number, but the calls persisted, so Davis told the caller he was a cop and to stop calling. The man said he didn’t think Davis was a cop, and should arm himself. Davis switched to a video call with the man, and showed him his badge — and that he indeed was armed. The caller quickly hung up, and blocked Davis from calling him back. By then, Davis had identified the caller as a man who had recently reported he had been robbed at his home on St. Simons Island of cash and a “large amount of marijuana.” Davis got an arrest warrant for Clayton Rowland Cowman Jr., 18, who then told investigators he thought he was calling the man who had robbed him. Cowman is charged with making terrorist threats against a peace officer, using a communication device to facilitate a felony involving drugs, and making harassing communications. (RC/Florida Times-Union) ...Of course, police knew he was an obliviot the moment he reported that he had been robbed of his drugs.