A “swatting call” is a dangerous and illegal prank in which the caller claims a life-threatening emergency at a specific ...

Calls have triggered huge deployments of law enforcement and caused panic at schools, churches and other institutions. But ...

California Hospital Goes into Lockdown After Receiving Phone Threats, Huntington Hospital, Jose Jurado, Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital ...

A series of swatting calls across Los Angeles and San Bernardino County have triggered multiple lockdowns, including at ...

A suspect was taken into custody on Friday, March 14 after Huntington Hospital went on at least a partial lockdown following ...

A suspect has been taken into custody on suspicion of making a threatening call to Huntington Hospital, prompting a temporary ...

(Photo by David Allen/Staff/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) An alert of a possible shooter at Claremont McKenna College on Thursday ... the situation to be a swatting call, a false report to law ...

Three tense hours after receiving a call about a possible active shooter with a bomb, police lifted a shelter in place order ...

CLAREMONT, Calif. (KABC) -- A shelter in place order was lifted at Claremont McKenna College after a report of a possible shooter on the campus was determined to be a swatting call, officials said.