Pedro Vargas' 911 Call

English transcript

VARGAS: "I'm calling to see if you can ... I'm being targeted."

OPERATOR: "Give me the address."

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VARGAS: "Can you trace a license plate?"

OPERATOR: "No, sir. Not over the phone.  Please give me your address.  You are calling me from?"

VARGAS: "Yes."

OPERATOR: "Apartment 408."

VARGAS: "Yes."

OPERATOR: "Tell me what's wrong.  Who is targeting you?"

VARGAS: "People who are following me."

OPERATOR: "Do you live there alone?"

VARGAS: "No."

OPERATOR: "Who lives there with you?"

VARGAS: "They are doing witchcraft on me."

OPERATOR: "Who lives there with you?"

VARGAS: "My mom."

OPERATOR: "Your mom? Is she there?"

(Mother is heard in the background)

VARGAS: "Yes."

OPERATOR: "Let me talk to her."

VARGAS: "I feel like there are people targeting me."

OPERATOR: "OK, my love, I understand you.  Let me talk to your mom for a second."

VARGAS' MOTHER: "I don't understand why he's gotten so upset."

OPERATOR: "Does he have mental problems?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Well, now. (inaudible)"

OPERATOR: "You want me to send police?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "No, senorita."

OPERATOR: "Do you feel in danger with him?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "I'm 89-years-old."

OPERATOR: "Do you feel in danger with him?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "I'm scared. (inaudible)."

OPERATOR: "You think he is having a panic attack?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Yes. A little while ago, I don't know why, where he used to work, there was something about the internet or something."

OPERATOR: "So you want me to send the police?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "No, because then he'll think I'm his enemy."

OPERATOR: "Put him back on."

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Help me, please."

OPERATOR: "What's your name? Alberto?"

VARGAS: "Pedro."

OPERATOR: "OK, it's 911 talking to you.  So you think someone has been following you?"

VARGAS: "No, someone is doing witchcraft on me."

OPERATOR: "And who is doing it?"

VARGAS: "A lawyer... Castillo.  There's a car parked outside and I want you to run the license plate. It's not a car of someone who lives here."

(Mother comes back on phone explaining that he's paranoid with the car.)

OPERATOR: "Where did he go?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "He's never acted like this."

OPERATOR: "Does he have mental problems? Nerves? Because it sounds like it."

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Now he does.  (inaudible, explains she put Xanax in his food)  He doesn't smoke. I want a psychologist to evaluate him, he's never been like this."

OPERATOR: "How old is he?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "He was born in the 60's."

OPERATOR: "So like 43?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "If something happens to him, do you think I should get a psychiatrist to see him?"

OPERATOR: "Hold on one second (sounds 911 operator typing)."

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Now he just left he says to get gas (inaudible). Oh, Lord. I'm going to die of this. But please, he's a good man (inaudible)."

OPERATOR: "What's his name?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Pedro Alberto Vargas."

OPERATOR: "When was he born?" 

VARGAS' MOTHER: "October 3rd in the 60's.  My memory is so bad, let me check (inaudible)."

OPERATOR: "And he left to get gas?  For what?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "For the car."

OPERATOR: "What kind of car does he drive?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Toyota."

OPERATOR: "What color?"

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Senorita, please. He's just traumatized over something to do with the internet where he worked."

OPERATOR: "Give me your name."

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Esperanza Patterson."

OPERATOR: "I'm going to send a unit over there."

VARGAS' MOTHER: "Please, not police! He's going to get upset."

OPERATOR: "But he is the one who called to ask for one.  So do we cancel the call?"

VARGAS' MOTHER:  "Please, see if you can send a psychiatrist to evaluate him."

OPERATOR: "Do you want me to cancel or not? If not, I have to send a police officer.  Then I'll cancel the call."

VARGAS' MOTHER: (inaudible) "What's your name so I can call you back?"

OPERATOR: "Tell me if I should cancel because I have two cops heading there."

VARGAS' MOTHER: "No. Cancel."

OPERATOR: "Alright, if anything call us back."

 


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