Rapper and YouTuber DDG posted on social media that sheriff's deputies drew their weapons and briefly detained him in what he ...

Video shared by the rapper, 27, shows deputies surrounding him at a paintball tournament on Aug. 11 and briefly handcuffing ...

The person called Perry High School to report a “subject possibly armed with a gun in the area of the school” around 2:40 p.m ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- Reports of a shooting on Lincoln Ave. in Utica Tuesday night turned out to be a swatting call. Just after 7:30 ...

Swatting — when someone makes a false 911 report to illicit a large and aggressive police response — has become increasingly common over the last decade as it becomes easier for callers to ...

DDG was detained at a desert paintball tournament after a swatting prank triggered a police raid, but was later released without charges.

Swatting has been around long enough that law enforcement agencies and emergency communication centers are generally aware of it. The FBI continues to issue guidance alerts, including the latest ...

A group of sophisticated young cyber criminals poses a rising threat with offenses ranging from swatting and cyber theft to ...

The FBI described swatting as a new phenomenon in 2008, just a few years before I was a victim of it. It’s been in the headlines recently because of a spate of incidents involving public officials.

Scottsboro police have arrested a man who they say impeded the search for a man accused of shooting a police officer. Daniell ...

A group of federal judges took the rare step of speaking out publicly about receiving death threats and mysterious pizza ...