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Kingsville police detained a 14-year-old juvenile on a false alarm charge after a shooting threat was made to two Kingsville ISD schools Wednesday.
Police said one person has been arrested on unrelated charges after what was apparently a false alarm regarding a report of shots fired and a possible hostage situation Tuesday afternoon in ...
Police have been called to Greene's Rome home several times for false alarms that have required a police response, a practice known as swatting. Greene said earlier this year that she had been ...
Barriss was arrested on December 29, 2017, in Los Angeles on a fugitive warrant stemming from a 2015 charge of making false bomb threats to KABC-TV, and was charged with false alarm, a felony. On January 12, 2018, Barriss was extradited to Kansas, where he was charged with involuntary manslaughter and held in Sedgwick County Jail.
In October 2018, the Seattle Police Department instituted a three-part approach to combating swatting: educating 911 dispatchers to identify fraudulent calls; ensuring that responding officers were aware of the potential for a hoax; and creating an opt-in registry for people who feared that they might become victims of swatting, such as ...
The term "false alarm" may actually be semantically incorrect in some uses. For example, a residential burglar alarm could easily be triggered by the residents of a home accidentally. The alarm is not necessarily false – it was triggered by the expected event – but it is "false" in the sense that the police should not be alerted.
The Louisville Metro Police Department said they responded to the ... Report of an active shooter at GE Appliances facility in Louisville was a false alarm, police say. Monica Kast. November 30 ...
The Lafayette Police Department is known nationally for the case of the Southside Rapist. From the early 1980s through 1995, a serial rapist preyed on women on the city's south side. After using all of the technology available to them, the LPD contacted and work with Dr. Kim Rossmo , who had developed a new type of profiling .