A Nesquehoning man is facing charges after making numerous calls in which he impersonated being the borough's police chief.

Max Gasker, 39, faces charges on nine counts of false alarms to agency or public safety, five counts of impersonating a public servant, and one count of harassment.According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by patrolman Carl Breiner of the borough police department:At 4:25 p.m. Oct. 5, Breiner was notified that the Carbon County Center was receiving multiple 911 calls from a cellphone caller.The calls started sometime after 2 p.m. and continued until well after 4 p.m.The caller reported an incident along West Penn Pike, West Penn Township, in which he indicated that a girl was "in trouble there" and needed police to respond.Township police were then dispatched to the address.When asked to identify himself, the caller refused, and when asked how he knew there was a problem at the address, he refused to say.More calls were placed over the next two hours, and no fewer than nine calls were made by the same man reporting a problem or demanding that police be dispatched to that address.When he was not satisfied with the dispatchers, he started identifying himself as Chief Sean Smith of the Nesquehoning Police Department, doing so at least five times.This resulted in multiple dispatches of police, and multiple calls linked between Carbon and Schuylkill's 911 centers, and occupied multiple police officers and 911 dispatchers.Upon arriving on scene, West Penn Police found no emergency and nothing wrong at the address.Through statements made by the caller, and past incidents on record with West Penn Police, the caller was identified as Gasker.Breiner responded to the address, where he located Gasker, who seemed very agitated and became argumentative immediately.He denied any wrongdoing when questioned, but then became angrier and said to Breiner, "You know when you leave I'm going to call them again."Gasker was told that he would receive criminal charges for each offense he committed.A phone number was displayed at the 911 center when the calls were received.Breiner executed a search warrant on Verizon Wireless Custodian of Records for an activity report, as well as subscriber information for their phone number.Verizon confirmed that the phone number was registered to Gasker, and that he called a total of nine times, as well as the nonemergency number once.The final 911 call came after Breiner cleared Gasker's residence, just as he had threatened to do.During the incident, Gasker was demanding, foul and ridiculing toward the dispatchers.Three dispatchers in all handled the calls that were made to Carbon County.During a call with one of the dispatchers, Gasker also made a sexual reference to her.