Beaverton police say Mark Eskelsen called 911 from his cell
phone, identified himself as “the sheriff of Washington County,” and asked for
medical help. He later admitted he wasn’t the sheriff but informed the
dispatcher he’d been “yelling for about an hour and a half.”
The man said in his Sunday morning call that he’d been in
the water about 10 hours and his towels had gotten wet. As he put it, “I just
need a hug and a warm cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows in it.”
The Oregonian newspaper says arriving officers arrested
Eskelsen for investigation of second-degree criminal trespass and improper use
of 911.