The Game Off The Hook In 'Flashcalling' Incident

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will not pursue charges.
By Gil Kaufman

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The Game should be gearing up to finally release his long-awaited CD, The R.E.D. Album, but instead he appeared on CNN on Wednesday night to defend himself against charges that he interfered with police business at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Last week, a message appeared on the West Coast rapper's Twitter feed asking aspiring interns to ring the sheriff's station in Compton, leading to a flood of calls that reportedly delayed emergency services. The sheriff's department was considering filing criminal charges against the MC, but on Wednesday, CNN reported that authorities have decided not to pursue legal action after The Game apologized for the incident.

Game (born Jayceon Taylor) made his mea culpa on Wednesday, saying the whole thing was a misunderstanding.

"It was a simple mishap," the rapper said. "I was doing a photo shoot, and it was downtown Los Angeles, and one of my boys picked up my phone and started tweeting random numbers," he said, not naming the person who allegedly set off the incident. "Whenever his phone is laying around and my phone is laying around, we tweet from each other's page. That's what happened."

The sheriff's department followed up with their own statement, in which they praised the one-time 50 Cent protégé for coming clean.

"His willingness to help share with the media and the community that the safety of the public is what is most important, is a great message," the department said in a statement, calling the apology "relevant and well-received."

"Based upon our investigation, as well as consultation with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, the LASD considers the criminal investigation into this matter closed. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will not be seeking criminal charges."

The Game also explained that the tweet sent out on Friday that gave the phone number of the sheriff's office was mixed up with a tweet from earlier in the day about an internship being offered to Game's 580,000 followers.

"The tweet about the internship was earlier in that day, and it got lost in the media with all that. He never sent out a tweet that said these numbers are for the internship," Game explained. "He tweeted a bunch of numbers jokingly. We always play pranks on each other," he said. "My sincerest apologies to the sheriff's department, and it was a joke gone wrong ... I never want to be the source of anything happening wrong to anybody or anybody not being able to get through to the help lines at the police station ... I don't ever want to see anyone hurt. I've got kids at home. I'm not that guy."

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