Simi Valley Police Department responded to and confirmed a false emergency report as a swatting incident, now seeking the ...

Emma Raducanu 'made a statement' after swatting aside former champion Marketa Vondrousova to reach the third round of ...

Nearly 150 laws went into effect in Florida on July 1, including a wide variety of new crimes, harsher penalties, and changes to law enforcement.

Authorities in Erie are responding to a swatting incident, a dangerous hoax that involves making false claims to provoke an ...

BAKER, Fla -- The teen -- who had the Baker School swatted in 2023 -- was sentenced on Monday. Landyn Whittington was ...

Someone reported a hostage situation at Erie Insurance Arena, 809 French St., about 4:50 p.m. on June 30. It was a prank; ...

Police are attempting to identify the person who reported a fake crime in Ventura County Monday afternoon. Officers were sent ...

The Erie SeaWolves will temporarily transform into the Erie Moon Mammoths on July 19th, following a rebranding initiative by ...

Swatting has vexed law enforcement for years — wasting police resources and, in at least one 2017 case unrelated to Szabo, ending in a fatal police shooting.

WASHINGTON — A Romanian citizen pleaded guilty on Monday to engaging in a plot to use “swatting” calls and bomb threats to intimidate and threaten dozens of people with bogus police ...

Swatting has been a problem for years, with the term perhaps first used by the FBI in 2008. Even then, swatters were using technology to disguise their voices and make it look like calls ...