Video of an Arizona homeowner confronting a hiker he accused of trespassing on his property is going viral.

The tape from last month shows him yelling at the hiker and calling police. 

“Please, it’s an emergency,” Bill Jaffa says to the dispatcher.

Jaffa describes the woman as aggressive, claiming that he feels threatened and “can’t tell if she has any weapons or not.”

The City of Mesa says the hiker was actually walking the Hawes Loop Trail, and not trespassing at all. 

Neighbor Nathan Rass says this is not an uncommon theme with Jaffa. 

“I’ve heard of quite a few occurrences of him blocking people or trying to discourage hikers,” Rass said.

City officials say the trail is owned by the city, and that in July they even rerouted a portion of the trail to shift it even further away from Jaffa’s property.

This didn’t stop him from calling authorities.

“We want her arrested,” he told police.

Jaffa declined to go on camera, but did apologize. This is his written apology:

“It was not my intention to cause stress to this hiker, for that is not who I am as an individual or professional, but want to offer my apologies for any anxiety I may have caused her.”

Mesa City officials say they’ll be putting up a fence barrier in the next few weeks to make the property line even more clear.

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