'swatting' Cases Across U.s. May Be Copycats

ABC News: U.S., ABC News: Nation
Wed, 08/10/2011 - 4:02am

In recent months, swatting, the process of mobilizing SWAT teams to respond to fake hostage situations due to prank phonecalls to the police, has spread throughout Canada and the United States.

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