The Des Moines Jammer Has Been Caught!

[N7DJR]

I have heard the "dead keys" (open mic) on 460.025 before wondering how the police radios could transmit that long without a timeout timer. This guy is only facing misdemeanors currently, I always thought it was felony?

Dave

DES MOINES, Iowa — A 22-year-old man has been accused of faking emergency calls and jamming or otherwise disrupting the Des Moines Police Department's radio frequency.

Kevin Grimes, of Webster Township, has been charged with 28 counts of obstructing emergency communications and eight counts of impersonating public officials.

Police say he made calls this month that forced the dispatch of officers, vehicles and equipment to the scenes of nonexistent incidents.

Police also say Grimes would leave his radio set on the police frequency without talking on it, tying up the channel.

[tglendye]

1st class idiot. Hopefully he's not a RR member.

[N7DJR]

Apparently the lack of the Motorola MDC chirp at the end of his radio is what tipped the police off this radio was a fraud. Also he used names and calls signs of officers who were off duty at the time of his fake calls. This happened a lot back home in the desert the local hams their were tasked with catching the police jammer back in the day. Now most radio systems there are P-25 trunked with DES encryption they do not worry about weirdos hacking into the radio systems