PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — A man who was getting ready to go to jail for an outstanding warrant early Thursday morning allegedly made matters worse for himself by calling in a false report.

A Paintsville Police officer spotted two men riding bicycles without lights on Broadway around 2:30 a.m. Thursday and stopped to check on them. When he asked them for identification, one of the men, later identified as James Edward Blevins, 31, said he had no ID and didn’t know his date of birth or Social Security number.

When the officer went back to his car to phone dispatch to try to determine the man’s identity, 911 received a call reporting shots fired on the other side of town. It later turned out Blevins had made that call.

On his way to jail later, the police report says he apologized for calling in the false report and said he was only trying to get the officer to leave so he wouldn’t find his warrant.

He now faces charges of filing a false report and hindering prosecution.