{"id":179573,"date":"2026-03-30T12:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:19:55","slug":"manhattan-high-school-sent-into-lockdown-by-swatting-incident-second-in-the-state-that-day-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179573\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan High School sent into lockdown by swatting incident, second in the state that day | State"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A fraudulent phone call sent Manhattan High School into lockdown on Thursday. Local police believe the call was a swatting incident, one of many in the region identified in the last month.<\/p>\n


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MANHATTAN, Mont. \u2013 A fraudulent phone call sent Manhattan High School into lockdown on Thursday. Local police believe the call was a swatting incident, one of many in the region identified in the last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Swatting is when a \u201cdeliberately false call\u201d is made with the goal of prompting a significant law enforcement response, the Manhattan Police Department explained. Swatting is \u201ca serious criminal act that endangers students, staff, first responders, and the broader community,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The department said it received a report of a disturbance at Manhattan High School at 12:42 p.m. on Thursday. It said it sent officers immediately, alongside units from the Gallatin County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Montana Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

Officers were at the scene within two minutes, the department said.<\/p>\n

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The school went into lockdown immediately and the joint law enforcement response worked together to investigate the reported threat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No legitimate threat was found.<\/p>\n

\u201cA thorough search of the campus was conducted, and it was determined there were no legitimate threats to the students, faculty, or community around the campus,\u201d the department wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the investigation, law enforcement determined the call to be a swatting incident. The origin of the call is under investigation by responding law enforcement services and the Montana Department of Criminal Investigation.<\/p>\n

Similar swatting incidents took place recently at Billings Senior High School<\/a> in Billings and at Shadle Park High over in Spokane, Washington.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A fraudulent phone call sent Manhattan High School into lockdown on Thursday. Local police believe the call…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[71211,9513,34035,303,9159,3777,9158,9664,71212,34036,34037,8041,28634,267,75,84,83,71215,26814,71210,71213,3009,9,24,71214,71209,63,104,308,71922],"class_list":{"0":"post-179573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-abc-fox-montana","9":"tag-bozeman","10":"tag-bozeman-news","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crimes","13":"tag-criminal-justice","14":"tag-criminal-law","15":"tag-emergency-services","16":"tag-fox-montana","17":"tag-gallatin-valley","18":"tag-kwyb","19":"tag-law-enforcement","20":"tag-legal-action","21":"tag-local-news","22":"tag-manhattan","23":"tag-manhattan-headlines","24":"tag-manhattan-news","25":"tag-montana-local-news","26":"tag-montana-news","27":"tag-montanarightnow","28":"tag-mt-news","29":"tag-national-security","30":"tag-new-york","31":"tag-new-york-city","32":"tag-news-montana","33":"tag-nonstop-local","34":"tag-nyc","35":"tag-police","36":"tag-public-safety","37":"tag-swatting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179573","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=179573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}