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A 15-year-old Buffalo girl was charged over the weekend after she admitted making about 1,000 fake 911 calls from her cell phone and six 911 prank calls from a church telephone, police said Monday.

The girl could be a "copycat," mirroring the highly publicized case of Juan Merced, the prime suspect in nearly 1,000 fake 911 calls from his family's West Side home, police said.

Merced, his wife, Felicita, and their oldest son, Eladio, 17, have been charged after the phony emergency calls allegedly were made from the family's 15th Street apartment over a period of several weeks this year.

Police do not believe that the two cases are connected.

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During the calls, the girl rarely reported that a false incident had occurred, authorities said. Instead, she mostly taunted 911 dispatchers - laughing, joking, harassing them and making snide remarks such as, "You can't catch me," police said. Sometimes the prank calls lasted several minutes, police said, and at least once spanned about one hour.

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