LOS ANGELES — A rapper could face criminal charges after a tweet from his account incited a telephone flash mob that overwhelmed the emergency phone system at one of busiest stations of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the agency said Saturday.
The Sheriff’s Department alleges that Game tweeted the phone number of the Compton station Friday and told his 580,000 followers to call the number if they wanted an internship.
The station’s phones started ringing Friday evening, and the lines were jammed for more than two hours. During that time, people with legitimate issues, which included two robberies, also tried to call in, said department spokesman Steve Whitmore.
The rapper later posted that his account had been hacked but also tweeted that it was an accident. The Associated Press
