Juan Gaspar-Montijo

While out on patrol just before 3 a.m. on Sunday, a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy found Juan Gaspar-Montijo, 21, talking on his cell phone with a distraught look on his face.

When the deputy asked if he needed help, Gaspar-Montijo didn’t respond, according to a sheriff’s report.

The deputy called 911 and a dispatcher told him Gaspar-Montijo was looking for a ride from the 14700 block of Southwest Martin Luther King Boulevard to his home in the 16500 block of Southwest Indian Mound Drive — about three miles away.

The deputy offered to call Gaspar-Montijo a cab, the report states, but the man said he didn’t have money and asked the deputy to drive him home instead.

The deputy refused, reportedly telling Gaspar-Montijo that he wasn’t a taxi service.

He warned Gaspar-Montijo he would be arrested if he dialed 911 again to ask for a ride home.

But moments later he did just that.

The deputy confirmed with a dispatcher who told him Gaspar-Montijo had called again for a ride home.

Gaspar-Montijo was being held at the Martin County jail on Monday afternoon in lieu of $10,250 bail.

He faces charges of abusing the 911 system, forging an identification card and probation violation.

Tags: 911, abusing 911 system, cell phone, Indian Mound Drive, Juan Gaspar-Montijo, Martin County Sheriff's Office, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

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