If they ever remake the movie Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! the town of Boyle, Alta., would be the perfect location.

This film would have a starring role for RCMP Cpl. John Spaans.

A few weeks ago, the corporal from the Boyle detachment started getting calls and texts on his personal cellphone from strangers who wanted to buy drugs.

He told callers they had the wrong number, and hung up. Over and over again.

"But they kept calling back," Spaans said. "And I suspect they figured I was playing coy, or something like that."

He wasn't.

Now, chances are good the callers are too young to remember a certain 1966 movie that starred Bob Hope and Phyllis Diller.

In any case, they kept calling the wrong number. At one point, Spaans had to go online to learn some of the slang words for the drugs callers asked for.

Eventually, unsolicited, Spaans said, "they told me who they were looking for. Which just happened to be the subject of a drug investigation in Athabasca.

"It was like we'd hit the jackpot."

The next scene in the remake would have police executing a warrant at a certain home in Athabasca. There they found what they were looking for, drugs and money.

A 41-year-old man now faces possession and drug trafficking charges.

Spaans said his personal cellphone has a "somewhat similar" number to the phone owned by the man police arrested.

"So I think, through friends and associates, somewhere along the line somebody mixed up some numbers," he said. "And it just so happened that the wrong number was my number."

Police work rarely gets easier than this. The corporal said the tricky part was making sure everyone's Charter rights were protected along the way.

"I gave them plenty of opportunities to not call back," he said.

Police have long since identified the callers. Spaans said he's pretty sure they still don't know they've been calling a police officer.

"I suspect the text messages will continue for the next little bit anyway," he said.