{"id":235191,"date":"2026-07-04T03:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235191\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:47:16","slug":"pittsburgh-state-police-investigating-threat-at-rivers-casino-swatting-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235191\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh, state police investigating threat at Rivers Casino, swatting suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh Public Safety officials say a threat made at Rivers Casino on Friday is being investigated as a swatting incident.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a call at about 8 p.m. at the North Shore entertainment business for a man saying he was going to begin shooting at the casino.<\/p>\n<p>A city spokesperson said Pittsburgh police and state troopers cleared the scene and nothing was found.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and EMS were also prepared for a possible emergency. No evacuation was necessary.<\/p>\n<p>News partner WTAE spoke with Ethan Harris, a casino patron visiting from New Hampshire. He estimated there were hundreds of people inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I walked in, the cop cars showed up at the same time. They said don\u2019t go into the parking garage,\u201d Harris said. \u201cThen everything was kind of hush-hush. About 15 minutes go by, then the cops said everything\u2019s OK, you can go inside; there\u2019s not really anything going on right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris also told reporters, \u201dI feel like I\u2019m secure. I don\u2019t really feel like there\u2019s too much of a threat going on because I think if there was a threat, they would evacuate the casino, so they obviously have it handled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Homeland Security\u2019s website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-04\/25_0325_fps_swatting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">swatting <\/a>is \u201ca malicious act that can involve placing false emergency calls to emergency responders, often reporting a (false) severe, ongoing crisis at a specific location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Federal officials said the goal is to instigate a large law enforcement response, creating chaos and potentially result in violence.<\/p>\n<p>No information about possible suspects was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Public Safety officials say a threat made at Rivers Casino on Friday is being investigated as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-235191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}