The Alexandria Police Department got a fake phone call Thursday afternoon warning that a man with a gun was walking into the 7-Eleven at Mount Vernon Avenue and W. Glebe Road, intent on committing a robbery.
Police believe that the call to the Alexandria Department of Communications Center was made through Caller ID Spoofing — concealing an identity by deliberately falsifying data sent to a Caller ID display.
“Caller is reporting that an individual with a large gun is walking in the 7-Eleven,” an APD dispatcher said just before 2 p.m. “The caller believes the subject is about to commit a robbery, but disconnected from the line.”…