A terrifying text message sent students running for cover, barricading themselves in bathrooms and knocking over chairs in ...

During the first swatting call on April 9, 2024, Brookfield Elementary was evacuated and police officers performed a sweep of the building. Other Brookfield police officers investigating that day ...

6 days later another swatting call. RPD officers again were called to the same home, after second false report of violence was made to crisis center in Elgin, Illinois, through Discord.

This setup allows for Discord users to place semi-anonymous calls from their home, at will, and at dirt-cheap prices. For example, $2.5 worth of Bitcoin buys a user a whopping 125 phone call minutes.

Washington Seattle-area man arrested for over 20 'swatting' calls in US, Canada Ashton Garcia, 20, of Bremerton, WA, anonymously broadcasted the calls on Discord ...

A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Wash., to making “swatting” calls that drew responses from law enforcement. Barry Winiker/Getty Images ...

Image via matthrono (Flickr/CC2.0) The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says criminals are hijacking weakly-secured smart devices in order to live-stream or record swatting incidents. "Recently ...

A series of swatting calls that have occurred over several months across the United States have been pinned down to a Telegram user, who claims to have left explosives in locations like high ...

The man, Ashton C. Garcia, of Bremerton, Wash., made the “swatting” calls from June through early September 2022, according to an indictment charging him with 10 felonies, including extortion ...

Online bullying brought police to Raleigh student’s home and groundless threats to his high school after he would not submit to an online harasser’s demands, a police search warrant says.

A Washington state man charged for making more than 20 swatting calls across the U.S. and in Canada has pleaded guilty to four crimes in connection with the fake reports.