Anaheim police Thursday are investigating who made a swatting call that prompted a large police response at Disneyland.<\/p>\n
The hoax coincided with the heightened alert for California law enforcement because of FBI warnings about the possibility of Iran attacking the West Coast.<\/p>\n
Officers from the Anaheim Police Department arrived at the theme park at approximately 9:45 p.m. Wednesday to investigate after receiving calls about a possible mass shooting and bomb threats, according to the Anaheim Police Department.<\/p>\n
The threats were unfounded, Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Matt Sutter told City News Service.<\/p>\n
He said investigators determined quickly that the threat was not credible and the response was complete within 45 minutes, Sutter said.<\/p>\n
The situation was handled by officers on duty, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had these at schools, residences,\u201d Sutter said. \u201cIt\u2019s a real waste of resources.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each incident prompts an immediate response by officers, sometimes with a lockdown or shelter-in-place order as investigators work to secure the scene and find out if an actual threat exists.<\/p>\n
In any case, swatting is illegal, a state and federal crime, and a perpetrator can be charged with reporting a false emergency, the sergeant said.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnock on wood, they\u2019ve all been unfounded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Anaheim police are well aware of what\u2019s going on in the world, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are always vigilant, especially around potential target areas,\u201d Sutter said.<\/p>\n
Video and broadcast reports show at least a dozen Anaheim Police Department patrol cruisers staged on Disneyland grounds after authorities received the swatting call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim police Thursday are investigating who made a swatting call that prompted a large police response at Disneyland.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,337,1341,11021,49787,29538,99356],"class_list":["post-216686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-call","tag-disneyland","tag-found","tag-hoax","tag-quickly","tag-swatting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}