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Chuck Darwin<p>Federal agents have located a person of interest in over 100 <a href="https://c.im/tags/swatting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>swatting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/calls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>calls</span></a>, which included calls targeting  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mayorkas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mayorkas</span></a>, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure and Security Agency Director Jen <a href="https://c.im/tags/Easterly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Easterly</span></a> and other senior Biden administration officials, according to law enforcement officials.<br />Officials say the person of interest lives in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Serbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Serbia</span></a>; charges have not yet been filed, but sources say they could be filed soon. <br />The person of interest is alleged to have made phone calls targeting officials over the Christmas holidays, according to the sources.<br />Swatting is a dangerous and illegal scheme in which people try to harass or menace others by making false emergency calls in an attempt to prompt police to dispatch SWAT teams to the homes of public figures, celebrities or personal enemies.<br /><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/swatting-suspect-mayorkas-secret-service-justice-dept/?linkId=361063468&amp;ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/swatting-susp</span><span class="invisible">ect-mayorkas-secret-service-justice-dept/?linkId=361063468&amp;ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Nikki Haley was swatted in December, records review shows </p><p>Swatting has become a prolific tool of political <a href="https://c.im/tags/intimidation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intimidation</span></a> in recent years as people respond to inflammatory rhetoric.</p><p>Newly reviewed records show that presidential hopeful Nikki <a href="https://c.im/tags/Haley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Haley</span></a> was the target of a swatting incident in late December when an anonymous person called 911 claiming to have killed his girlfriend at Haley’s South Carolina home.</p><p>Authorities responded to a call on 30 December from a person who said he had shot his girlfriend and was threatening to harm himself, giving Haley’s address to the operator. It was shortly deemed a fake emergency, Reuters reported. Haley and her son were not at home during the time of the call; her husband was overseas.</p><p>The report comes after a surge in swatting – when anonymous people use the addresses of public figures when calling 911 to report fake violent incidents, like shootings – against public officials in recent months. </p><p>Earlier this month, special counsel Jack <a href="https://c.im/tags/Smith" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Smith</span></a> and DC district court judge Tanya <a href="https://c.im/tags/Chutkan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chutkan</span></a>, both key figures in the federal case against Donald Trump for attempts to overturn the election, were targets of swatting. </p><p>Shenna <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bellows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bellows</span></a>, Maine’s secretary of state who barred Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot, was also singled out in an incident last year.</p><p>Gabriel <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sterling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sterling</span></a>, a top official in the Georgia secretary of state’s office, said that 14 police cars, a firetruck and an ambulance appeared at his home when someone called 911 about a hoax shooting.</p><p>“Now I bolt my doors every night,” he told Reuters. “That’s the reality I’m living in.”</p><p>Jen <a href="https://c.im/tags/Easterly" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Easterly</span></a>, the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the federal agency that is tasked with bolstering election security, was also a target of a hoax December 30, NBC News reported earlier this week.</p><p>“One of the most troubling trends we have seen in recent years has been the harassment of public officials across the political spectrum, including extreme incidents involving swatting and direct personal threats,” Easterly told NBC News. “These incidents pose a serious risk to the individuals, their families and, in the case of swatting, to the law enforcement officers responding to the situation. While my own experience was certainly harrowing, it was unfortunately not unique.”</p><p>Some officials have also been targets of more direct threats. On the morning of closing arguments in Trump’s New York fraud trial, a bomb squad responded to a threat directed toward the Long Island home of judge Arthur <a href="https://c.im/tags/Engoron" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Engoron</span></a>, who is overseeing the case.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/SWATting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SWATting</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/rightwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rightwing</span></a><br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/intimidation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intimidation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/27/nikki-haley-swatting-incident-december?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j</span><span class="invisible">an/27/nikki-haley-swatting-incident-december?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>
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