Man made 26 calls to 911 before he was arrested

PALMER — According to documents filed in court, a man jailed for harassing emergency dispatchers tied up emergency lines calling roughly every 10 minutes for four hours straight.

Jordan Hugart Greer, 59, was jailed at the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility late Wednesday charged with harassment.

Trooper Benny Markos writes that he was first alerted to what Greer was up to at 10:30 p.m.

“Greer was not reporting an emergency; he was calling in regards to an earlier incident where he had reported a theft. Not including non-emergency lines, Greer called 911 a total of 26 times during a four-hour period,” Markos writes in Greer’s court file.

Dispatchers told Markos the calls were “insulting and profane.” Officials told him to stop calling and instructed him to call the trooper investigating his case instead of 911.

“During the time he was told to contact his case officer he threatened to kill troopers. Greer was warned numerous times to stop,” according to Markos’ affidavit.

Finally Greer was arrested.

The same day he was arrested for that, Greer was charged with damaging the Palmer Hay Flats Game Refuge.

According to an affidavit Trooper Sgt. Mark Agnew filed in that case, the damage to the flats first came to light Aug. 11, 2013, when a man called to say he’d seen a backhoe stuck in the flats.

Agnew said he called the refuge manager and asked him to check it out. Turns out the backhoe wasn’t in the refuge, it was just outside of it and by Aug. 15, it had been removed. The refuge manager, Doug Hill, followed its tracks back to a house in Palmer.

But, Hill told Agnew, he also found a Jeep Cherokee that had gone through the refuge and become stuck on Eklutna Corp. land.

“Both the backhoe and the Jeep had also crossed anadromous salmon streams to get to their locations,” Agnew writes.

The next day Agnew took a state Supercub airplane to fly over the refuge and spot vehicles. In addition to the Jeep he saw a Dodge pickup. Both were on Eklutna land.

So Agnew went to the house Hill followed the tracks to. There he talked to Greer.

“Greer said he had got three vehicles stuck out there. He got one of them out, he had two of them still stuck,” Agnew writes.

He told troopers he’d gone there to look for his horse that had gotten loose. He said the backhoe’s tires had fallen off and he’d had to dig a hole to get it out.

“Greer was told he could not legally retrieve the vehicles until he contacted (the Alaska Department of Fish and Game) to apply for a permit,” Agnew rote.

Agnew charged Greer with three counts of construction in an anadromous water body.

As of Friday evening, Greer was still listed as an inmate of the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility.

Contact Andrew Wellner at 352-2270

or andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com.