QUEENS — An EMT was busted Friday for faking a 911 call about a dying man because he didn’t want to travel from Queens to Brooklyn to help a sick child, according to the Department of Investigation.
William Medina, 27, was charged with falsely reporting an incident, falsifying business records and obstructing governmental administration, according to prosecutors.
Medina, who started working as an EMT in October 2014, had just transported a patient in Queens on August 19, when his unit was assigned to respond to a sick kid with possible high fever in Brooklyn, officials said.
But Medina didn’t feel like going and used a pay phone near the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue subway station to make phony 911 call of higher priority than the sick child.
Medina reported that there was a man at the corner of 74th street and Roosevelt Avenue who was in cardiac arrest, wasn’t breathing and could possibly be dead, according to officials.
The phony emergency call triggered the response of nearly a dozen emergency personnel, including two ambulances and a FDNY truck, but Medina’s unit was still sent to Brooklyn before eventually being re-assigned to another call in Queens.
Investigators reviewed Medina's ambulance GPS records and found security videos showing Medina stepping out of his ambulance to make the fake 911 call from a pay phone.
Medina, who was making roughly $32,000 a year as an EMT, resigned in August during the investigation, officials said.
He surrendered himself to the 108th Precinct in Queens on Friday and was awaiting arraignment in the afternoon, sources said.
His lawyer's information was not immediately available.
