A man has been charged after allegedly posting racist content online and submitting a false reports to police about racially motivated assaults.
State Security Investigation Detectives charged a East Fremantle man over a series of alleged posts between April and August this year, and more than 34 calls to police most of which were to report fake assaults.
Police say the online content was derogatory towards specific members of the community based on their race, nationality or religion and contained false information suggesting the man had family members who held public officer positions and who held the same beliefs as him.
The man allegedly called police numerous times to report racially motivated assaults that proved to be false, calls that at times sparked police to be deployed under emergency conditions only to find no evidence of any incident.
The man was arrested on August 18 after police searched an East Fremantle home during which several items of interest were allegedly seized.
He is due to face court this morning on charges of conduct likely to racially harass and 34 counts of creating a false belief.
In Alabama News, according to the Hanceville Police Department, 23-year-old Amy Hill Eller was arrested and charged with False Reporting to Law Enforcement after reporting a false kidnapping plot against her and her family.
Police said Eller's husband posted to social media that Eller and their children were the subjects of a kidnapping discussion involving three males while shopping in Hanceville.
Police said the social media post also stated that the Hanceville Police Department had been notified about the incident and that an officer reached out to Eller. The post went viral and police said it was shared numerous times on social media.
Police said the department never received a call about the incident and a report was never filed by Eller. On Friday morning, police said Eller and her husband came to the police department and filed a report about the incident.
After investigating Eller's claims through the review of video surveillance footage of the reported area, phone records, and GPS location checks, police said officers could not corroborate any of Eller's story. Police determined there was enough information to obtain a warrant for Eller's arrest.
