Dementia patient mistakes partner for intruder, Palermo ME
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Medical EmergencyA caller reported possible trespassing near North Palermo Road. It was found that a person with dementia mistook their partner for an intruder.
Audio|Heard on: Penobscot, Waldo, Knox County Public Safety
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01:48
Transcript:
00:00
It's very quiet trying to discern some type of criminal trespass in Palermo.
00:06
Mapping on North Palermo Road.
00:10
Acknowledgment / Message received. Which end?
00:15
Freedom and or Tours for three?
00:18
Freedom End.
00:23
Freedom and.
00:25
So,
00:26
handline mapping box (number withheld).
00:31
Acknowledgment / Message received, being around from Maltrow.
00:36
Okay.
00:43
15.
00:46
Good.
00:52
I thought it would be more of a welfare check.
00:54
Hasn't just gone the line.
00:55
State to this white, the caller has dementia and thought he was an intruder.
01:03
Help him.
01:10
All the com, all the 15.
01:13
Go ahead.
01:15
So she called in, since she had an unwanted guest,
01:20
couldn't tell me who it was, or what he looked like, or how old he was.
01:24
And then he got on the line,
01:29
not her husband, but her partner.
01:32
Goodbye, she has a...
01:37
There's apparently nothing going on, but I told him something to be checking on.
01:44
Ten-four. Do we have him with history at that residence at all?
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Location mentioned:
No Palermo Rd, Palermo, ME 04354
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