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In April 2013 California State Senator Ted Lieu, who was arguing at the time for anti-swatting laws in the state, was himself swatted. [57] In 2013, a network of fraudsters involved in carding and doxing of public officials using stolen credit reports targeted computer security expert Brian Krebs with malicious police reports.
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 ...
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.
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.
The L.A. County Fire Department determined that a reported plane crash off Rancho Palos Verdes was a false alarm and ended their search around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
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.
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In England and Wales, one can be charged with the offence under Section 5(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1967 [1] when one "causes any wasteful employment of the police" by "knowingly making to any person a false report" which: Shows that a criminal offence has been committed, Creates apprehension for the safety of any persons or property, or