{"id":422119,"date":"2026-08-02T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422119\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T23:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T23:51:34","slug":"sdpd-large-response-in-gaslamp-quarter-result-of-swatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422119\/","title":{"rendered":"SDPD: Large response in Gaslamp Quarter result of &#8216;swatting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive police response early Sunday morning in San Diego\u2019s Gaslamp Quarter was the result of an unfounded emergency or \u201cswatting\u201d-type incident, San Diego police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials provided few details about the incident, which began sometime before 3:50 a.m. on J Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues, according to a San Diego Police Department post on the social media site X. Officers remained at the scene until about 11 a.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanDiegoPD\/status\/2083977880212779375?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to the department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the call turned out to be \u201clike a swatting incident\u201d that involved reported threats, but did not provide further details. In a follow-up post on X, the department said it conducted an extensive investigation and \u201cdetermined the reported claims were unfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A typical swatting call often involves a 911 caller reporting a fake emergency in order to draw a police SWAT response to a particular address without cause.<\/p>\n<p>Social media users reported early Sunday that dozens of police vehicles and heavily armed officers swarmed the area, which is about three blocks northwest of Petco Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive police response early Sunday morning in San Diego\u2019s Gaslamp Quarter was the result of an unfounded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[138,181,23,100,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-422119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422119","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=422119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}