A Coaldale man faces charges after he filed a false police report to authorities.

According to an affidavit filed by police Chief Sean Smith, on April 15, he received a call from the Communications Center saying that there was a rape in progress at a home on Rhume Street. At the same time, another Nesquehoning officer was on the phone with Frackville State Police regarding the incident.

The officers went to the home and spoke with the person who lived there who said that she lives alone and her son lives next door, but neither of them had called. Police said the son was not even home at the time.

Police were given permission to search both homes.

Dispatchers then spoke to the caller, identified as Kerry Lee Freedman, 45, of the 200 block of East Phillips Street, regarding his claim to see if he had the wrong address, and as they asked questions, Freedman grew agitated and began cursing and screaming at the dispatcher.

Nesquehoning police called Coaldale police, who said Freedman had completed a hang-up 911 call earlier that day.

Police then went to his residence, and Freedman admitted calling and saying that his daughter was being raped at the two addresses in Nesquehoning. He also admitted using narcotics.

He was arraigned before District Judge Casimir Kosciolek on May 1 and is in Carbon County Correctional Facility after being unable to post $100,000 bail.

A preliminary hearing before District Judge Eric Schrantz is scheduled for May 20.