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Mastic man made 300 fake 911 calls, police say

Speaking at times in a female falsetto or identifying himself as the European discoverer of the New World, a Mastic man called 911 hundreds of times in recent weeks to make phony reports of everything from car crashes to major explosions, according to Suffolk police.

In a police interview after his Monday arrest, Michael Salino, 37, admitted making up the imagined emergencies because "he was...

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