According to the Attorney General, Francisco Dominguez Brito, 17 people have been arrested for making prank calls to the 911 System.
He said that the calls had been made by children, most living with their grandparents, but the adults had been arrested and not the children.
He said that in some cases, once they arrived at the homes from which the calls had been made, the adults in the home simply wanted to hit the child as a punishment, but Dominguez Brito said that they still did not know how many would be prosecuted.
He went on to say that the number of nuisance calls had decreased significantly this weekend.