MANHATTAN, Mont. \u2014 Manhattan police responded to a swatting incident at Manhattan High School Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
According to the Manhattan Police Department, a report regarding a disturbance at the high school came in around 12:42 p.m.<\/p>\n
Officers were dispatched to the scene, along with deputies from the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office and troopers from Montana Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
School officials went into a lockdown as “law enforcement personnel thoroughly evaluated and investigated the reported threat,” according to the Manhattan Police Department’s press release.<\/p>\n
Law enforcement officials found “no legitimate threats to students, faculty, or community around the campus” and reported they were not in danger.<\/p>\n
School officials lifted the lockdown, and the school day resumed.<\/p>\n
The situation is currently under investigation.<\/p>\n
Punishment for swatting may include a prison sentence of up to 10 years or a fine of up to $50,000, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Mont. \u2014 Manhattan police responded to a swatting incident at Manhattan High School Thursday afternoon. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-176661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}