A Carbon County man who made repeated 911 calls to the Carbon County Communications Center entered guilty pleas in that case and another case on Monday in the county court.

Max Eugene Gasker, 40, of Nesquehoning, pleaded to one count each of false alarms and endangering the welfare of children.

Nesquehoning police charged Gasker with making numerous calls in which he impersonated being the borough’s police chief. He was charged with 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 at 4:25 p.m. Oct. 5, 2017, Breiner was notified that the communications 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.

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.

The endangering offense occurred on July 16, 2017, in Nesquehoning, with a 6-year-old boy as the victim.

Defense Attorney Matthew J. Rapa said his client has history of mental health issues and is receiving counseling.

On the false alarms count, Matika sentenced him to serve one to 12 months in jail and six months probation on the endangering charge, consecutive to the first count. He was also ordered to get both mental health and drug and alcohol evaluations, render a total of 75 hours of community service, attend and successfully complete both anger management and parenting classes, pay court costs of about $1,000 and pay a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole and probation.

He was given credit for 27 days already served in jail on the charges.

Reporter Terry Ahner contributed to this article.