A Gates man was arrested for placing a fake emergency call to 911 Sunday night to find out who was in a motel room.

Jason Edwards, 34, called police and claimed he was being robbed at knife-point in motel on Buffalo Road.

Police say Edwards knew one person in the room at the time and wanted to see who else was in there.

Edwards called in the fake robbery from a different location and watched as police removed people from the room.

He’s being charged with third-degree falsely reporting an incident.