A Dakota News Now reporter has been arrested on charges alleging he made a prank phone call to the former chair of the South Dakota Republican Party using Gov. Kristi Noem’s personal cell phone number, according to court documents.

The Stanley County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that Austin Goss, the capitol bureau reporter for Dakota News Now, had been arrested Thursday morning and released on a personal recognizance bond.

A probable cause statement written by a special agent with the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation said a 50-year-old individual with the initials D.L. received a “harassing phone call” on Jan. 23. Documents say the call came from a website called PrankDial, which was able to make it appear as though the call was coming from Noem’s cell phone. It's unclear what time the call took place.

Dan Lederman, the former chair of the South Dakota Republican Party, confirmed to the Argus Leader on Thursday that he was the recipient of the call, but said he had no further comment.

The call was a pre-recorded prank from the website PrankDial.com, titled “Mafia Guy Got Vaccines,” in which a mafia member angrily asks where boxes of Moderna vaccines have been stashed. The call ends “You’ve just been pranked by PrankDial.com.”

Court documents say that between subpoenas of PrankDial and Midcontinent Communications, they were able to determine the IP address belonged to Goss in his Fort Pierre home.

Lederman told the investigator that Goss would “occasionally text him snide or rude remarks,” and said he was annoyed by the phone call, documents show. The documents state Lederman said, “the tone and tenor of the audio recording startled him and caused him concern for his safety.”

Investigators said given that Goss likely had both Noem’s and Lederman’s cell phone numbers, and that his internet connection was password protected, probable cause existed that he made the call.

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Goss was charged with "making threatening, harassing, misleading contacts,” a class 1 misdemeanor. The maximum penalty could be one year’s imprisonment and $2,000 in fines.

Dakota News Now officials did not immediately respond to questions about whether Goss is still employed by the company, but the staff page still shows him as an employee. Goss, as well as officials with Noem's office, did not immediately respond for comment.

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This article originally appeared on Sioux Falls Argus Leader: SD reporter arrested for using Gov. Noem's number to make prank call