VAN WERT, Ohio (WOWO) – Swatting is the term used when someone uses your information, and then makes a 911 call at your address that’s so severe police have to send a SWAT team, and a family in Van Wert had to deal with that over the weekend.
Our partners in news at 21Alive report that the family has asked to stay anonymous.
They say they were visiting Fort Wayne and when they got close to their home they noticed the emergency vehicles at the end of the road. When they saw the police cars in front of their house, they figured they were being swatted.
Van Wert’s police dispatch calls from Saturday night include officials saying they received a call from a man who claimed he shot his mother and threatened to shoot his brother and himself next.
The family believes this stemmed from the recent cyberbullying one of the children has been experiencing.
Swatting has become more common in the United States and the FBI now has a database to track cases.
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Will the FBI track swatting cases the same way they always seem to have mass killers “On Their Radar?” IF they only would spend as much time and effort on killers ans swatters as they spend tracking down innocent J6 attendees that never went into the capitol building which by the way WE ALL OWN! How about spending as much time as they do tracking down parents that protest at school board meeting about porn in the school libraries that THEY PAY FOR with their taxes??? Or maybe the same effort they spend on finding a pro-life father for protecting his son from a violent pro abortion stooge outside a “clinic attacking said son?”
If anyone is waiting on the FBI to do anything right and proper do not hold your breath.