ELBA, Minn. – After a car came at him with high beams, a deputy turned around and gave chase. The car, accelerating rapidly, disappeared over a knoll. Three minutes later, as the deputy was looking for where the driver turned off, a 911 call arrived at the police dispatcher’s desk in Winona. The caller said there was an emergency back in Elba: Better get there fast. The deputy reversed himself and raced back to Elba. It turned out there was no emergency. The 911 call was a hoax. Evidently the driver had phoned an accomplice to make the 911 call. There will be a next time, the deputy said.
