HARRISBURG — A call of shots fired and a desperate officer’s plea for back up turned out to be one man’s idea of a bad joke on Tuesday morning, police said.

The call of "19th and Derry, I got a shooting, 19th and Derry I got a shooting! Back-up, back-up" came in just after 10 a.m., police said.

Officers and detectives responded to the location but were unable to find anything, police said.

A computer check revealed that the radio call originated from a police cruiser that was at the Maaco Body shop in the area for repair work.

Officers interviewed employees of the body shop, and Carlos Albino, 22, of the 1800 block of Briggs Street, said he was the one who made the call, but claimed he didn’t know the radio was operating, police said.

Albino was taken into custody on numerous warrants for his arrest. He was wanted for a parole violation and six traffic warrants dating to 2009, police said.

For the bogus radio call, Albino was charged with disorderly conduct and sounding a false alarm, records state.