{"id":142,"date":"2023-12-27T03:49:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T03:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/ohio-republican-lawmaker-latest-victim-of-swatting-incident\/"},"modified":"2023-12-27T03:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T03:49:28","slug":"ohio-republican-lawmaker-latest-victim-of-swatting-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/27\/ohio-republican-lawmaker-latest-victim-of-swatting-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Republican lawmaker latest victim of \u2018swatting\u2019 incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Republican lawmaker in Ohio<\/a> became the latest victim of a “swatting incident” on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

State Representative Kevin D. Miller wrote on X that numerous sheriff\u2019s deputies<\/a> responded to his residence around 3 p.m. on a false report of a shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This \u2018swatting incident\u2019 put several lives at risk and was a huge waste of resources,” Miller said. “Special thanks to Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp and his team for their expeditious and professional response.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Licking County Sheriff\u2019s Department for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Swatting” involves calling 911 and faking an emergency that draws a response from law enforcement, typically a SWAT team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018SWATTING\u2019 GETS A TERRIFYING NEW UPDATE AS CRIMINALS NOW WREAKING \u2018EMOTIONAL HAVOC\u2019 AS A PAID SERVICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the nonprofit group Secure Community Network (SCN) documented nearly 200 swatting incidents<\/a> over 24 hours targeting Jewish facilities across dozens of states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And on Christmas day, two Republican lawmakers \u2013 Rep. Brandon Wiliams of New York and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia \u2013 were the targets of “swatting” calls.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Greene signaled it was the eighth time she\u2019d been the victim of a swatting incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both incidents are under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Republican lawmaker in Ohio became the latest victim of a “swatting incident” on Tuesday.\u00a0 State Representative Kevin D. Miller wrote on X that numerous sheriff\u2019s deputies responded to his residence around 3 p.m. on a false report of a shooting.\u00a0 “This \u2018swatting incident\u2019 put several lives at risk and was a huge waste of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}