ST. LOUIS – Another Republican state official gets ‘swatted.’ That’s a criminal prank where someone calls 911, faking an emergency to bring a large number of officers to a particular address. Missouri ...
The trend of swatting, or calling 911 to report a fake crime so that police are called out to an address, has nabbed more and more headlines in recent years. The highly illegal prank that started in ...
Kelsey Darragh recounted on her podcast her experience of being swatted, where as many 30 armed law enforcement officers showed up to her house in the middle of the night. She found herself to be the ...
"Swatting" is the act of making a false 911 call to send a large law enforcement response to an unsuspecting person's location. University campuses across the country, including Kansas State ...
FBI Director Kash Patel told podcast host Joe Rogan during an interview released Friday that his house was swatted this week. Patel was a guest on "The Joe Rogan Experience," and during the interview, ...
UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley has revealed he was recently swatted by armed police during a livestream session on the streaming platform, Twitch. Sean O’Malley is a Twitch streamer by day ...
Kai Cenat was doing what he does best Monday night -- streaming live on YouTube -- but his show went sideways after cops say he got "swatted" in L.A. The famous streamer was doing his live stream from ...