Man with schizophrenia in mental health crisis at home, Easton PA


A 20-year-old man with schizophrenia is alone at home experiencing a mental health crisis. He has previously threatened to harm himself and tried to drive off a cliff. Emergency medical services are responding to his location near North 14th Street in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Audio|Source: Easton Police
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Transcript:
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EMS going to DLS to near North 14th Street third party callers reporting that this son needs to be 302[1] prices is in the row It's going to be a 20-year-old name (name withheld) is a history of schizophrenia and he's currently home alone negative weapons known and he has a history of being intoxicated but he doesn't believe he is currently intoxicated The MS is coming from Palmer
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Definitely.
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Kenyon, it's back 47.
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2045.
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2045 receiving.
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County did the crisis say why is the question?
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Negative, I can give a call over now. It was the caller that was reporting that crisis isn't around. I'm going to give a call now.
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845 for the caller brightsusses around because the mail is starting to hurt himself last night and he also attempted to call his bodily harm to himself and he was starting to drive his car off a cliff
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
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302: Emergency involuntary mental health commitment (Section 302); '302 warrant' indicates an order to take a person into custody for evaluation
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