CLEARWATER, FL (WFLA) – Police arrested a man Friday after they say he dialed 911 and hung up more than 100 times – in just a few days.

Leonard Lee Mitchell, 62, called Pinellas County Regional 9-1-1 125 times between June 6 and June 10, police said. Half of those calls were hang-ups, while most of the other calls were abandoned lines in which there was no conversation. There were some “open lines” in which there was conversation. Sometimes there was just music in the background.

Clearwater police officers mapped the hang-up calls to the area of 2007 Alpine Road. They traced the calls to a landline in a specific apartment unit.

Cops say Mitchell never needed help, however, in an exclusive interview with News Channel 8, the suspect said he did need service – and didn’t get it.

He said he “was exposed to something beyond his way of thinking because it’s called artistic robotic technician.” News Channel 8 couldn’t find any information about that.

Mitchell’s next-door neighbor, Sandra, told us he probably went off of his medication.

Mitchell said it’s all one big misunderstanding. “I’m innocent,” he said.

“I called 911 because I be put in pain, man,” Mitchell said. “Every day. That’s why I was calling them.”

He admitted making the calls but said he wasn’t looking for the police. “See, I don’t want the police,” Mitchell said. “I want rescue, but they keep sending police, and it’s the police on the squad that really don’t likes me.”

Police make arrest

On Friday police had enough and went to the suspect’s apartment – unannounced.

They hid under his porch and, in the early morning hours of June 9, heard him call 9-1-1, according to the department. The officers verified the call with dispatch and then made their move.

Police say Mitchell tried to put his phone away. They also said – without being questioned about the calls – he said, “I ain’t called you. I called rescue.”

“I just know that he tried to cover up what he was doing and pretend that he wasn’t abusing the 911 system,” Rob Shaw of the Clearwater Police Department said

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