The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says Jason Honaker has been a busy man in 2013.
Honaker, 38, was arrested Wednesday for dialing 911 more than 1,200 times from December 31, 2012 to present. That averages to 26 calls a day.
Hillsborough County 911 dispatchers call this the worst case of fake emergency calls they've ever dealt with.
"It's very frustrating,' said Lt. Darrin Bowers with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. "Sometimes we had to respond with helicopters, multiple deputies and canine units. All these resources were taken away from real emergencies to deal with phony calls."
Authorities say Honaker called 911 and reported he was being abducted, or attacked with guns and knives.
Deputies say they cracked the case by tracing each call using a GPS signal. They say calls came from the area of Tampa East Boulevard and Massaro Boulevard.
Patrol deputies, along with K-9s and Air Services responded to several of the calls in search of what they believed to be an emergency. The sheriff's office says the fake calls cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
Dispatchers say Honaker would also ramble during some of his calls, and other times the line would be silent.
Undercover deputies were able to keep an eye on the area over the last few months. On Wednesday, they located and arrested Honaker, recovering the cell phone deputies believe he used to make the calls. They say he admitted to calling 911, but did not say why.
He's charged with seven felony counts of false 911 calls.