Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Arlington County Police Department told NBC News it is investigating the swatting incident. The department said a 911 call came in just before 9 p.m. ET on Dec. 30 to report a shooting inside ...
A federal judge in Washington, DC, is just one of the latest high-profile victims in a new wave of “swatting” incidents occurring during an election season security experts fear will be marked ...
Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic that involves false reporting in order to generate a police response to another person's address. Information in the hoaxes is often obtained through data broker websites, compromised accounts, and leaked databases to obtain, often through legal means, personally identifying information about the individual which can be used for swatting.
Jason Kelce broke his silence over his viral phone swatting incident and apologized for his misconduct. “I’m not happy with anything that took place. I’m not proud of it,” Kelce, 36, said ...
The caller’s voice in the mosque incident matched that of the voice heard in the swatting incidents involving FBI personnel, according to the arrest warrant affidavit, which was signed by a ...
At the time of the incident, Tyler Rai Barriss was a 25-year-old homeless man living in Los Angeles, California.Known online as "SWAuTistic", he had a criminal record including domestic violence, [3] and had served 16 months in Los Angeles County Jail for making false bomb threats against KABC-TV, an elementary school in Los Angeles, and a middle school in Granada Hills.
A Tennessee man reportedly died of a heart attack after police, responding to a swatting call, told him to come out of the house with his hands up during an incident in 2020.
The FBI describes “swatting” as a prank designed to draw an emergency law enforcement response to a hoax victim, often creating a situation where a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team ...