DELHI, La. — A call mistakenly made by a victorious video gamer led to his arrest on an outstanding warrant. Authorities arrested Thomas Ballard, 29, of Delhi, early Monday after a woman reported receiving a late-night call from someone saying, "I have killed them all."Ballard's number showed up on the woman's caller ID; he'd called by mistake, meaning instead to get a buddy to talk-up his success in an Xbox game, said Sgt. Julie Lewis, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana State Police.
...Hokay - stupid, but understandable. Read on, though, Gentle Rantburger...
Authorities following up at the address, to investigate whether there had been any foul play, found no evidence of wrongdoing, she said. But they did find, in the process of identifying Ballard ...
Ah, you KNEW there was a but...
... that he had a 5-year-old warrant out of Baton Rouge, charging him with failure to appear on a possession of cocaine charge.
"Stay inside,", they said. "Play video games until this blows over," they said. "It's SAFE," they said...
Ballard was booked into the Richland Parish Detention Center for extradition to Baton Rouge. "It was weird the way this all came down," Lewis said Tuesday. "This isn't something you could just make up."