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Prank reports lands college student in jail

By Brian Hagen

02/18/2025

Lydia Fontenot/Credit: Atchison Co Sheriff

(KAIR)--A 20-year-old Benedictine College student is facing charges for allegedly leading Atchison Police to the northside campus for a prank report.

According to a release from Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, Lydia Fontenot, of Southlake, Texas, was arrested Saturday, on the college campus, for transmitting false information to request emergency service.

Wilson explains that shortly before 9:00 Saturday night, officers responded to a dorm, on the college campus, to investigate a report that someone was being chased with knife.

The investigation that followed led police to learn that the report was false, made after a prank call, reporting the claim, was placed to a college staff person who then notified authorities, leading to the police response.

Following her arrest, Fontenot was booked into the Atchison County Jail.

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