swat teams

SWAT team sold fake body armor imported from China as Homeland Security probes

“We were notified by the Department of Homeland Security that the plates that we had were some of those plates that were found to be counterfeit and so as a...

16 deputies injured in explosion during SWAT training at California FBI facility

One officer suffered a non-life-threatening leg injury that would require surgery, while two others suffered superficial injuries to their backs.

A SWAT team stormed my house and said a South American gang was planning to rob me – here's how to protect yourself

"Police. You are under arrest. Stay right there and I won't shoot you." 

Cop allegedly made series of swatting calls while on duty because he 'thought it was funny'

“Point blank, honest with you, it pissed me off."

Writer 'swatted' 47 times over casual diss of Norm Macdonald in 2018: 'Trying to destroy my world'

"You can’t fathom the amount of clinical obsession that grips these people. Trying to destroy my world is their full-time lives,'' says writer and victim Patrick S. Tomlinson.

Zipline event stumps SWAT team: ‘It’s all going horribly wrong’  

Chile made quite the "splash" at the UAE SWAT Challenge in Dubai. Watch as the five-person Chilean team struggled to cross a zipline over an ice-cold pool of water for...

WH decries swatting as 'dangerous' after being hit with fake 911 call claiming fire

The bogus calls are "creating a danger and a risk to our society," said press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Emergency crews scramble to White House after 911 caller says it's on fire

Crews were rolling one minute later "and in coordination with the Secret Service, it was determined there was no fire emergency."

Maine secretary of state’s house 'swatted' day after Trump ballot disqualification decision: 'Unacceptable'

Bellows and her family were away at the time of the hoax call. 

Joe Biden and the left are putting the rule of law at risk

Last year, President Biden announced a $500 billion cancellation of federal student loans but the Supreme Court ruled in June that Biden’s loan cancellation was an illegal power grab.

Boston mayor's home 'swatted' on Christmas by caller who said man shot wife inside -- weeks after she held 'Electeds of Color' party

Wu, 38, says was shocked to open her door and see all the flashing lights but it did not disrupt her family's evening.

NY GOP rep. ‘swatted’ on Christmas Day — just hours after Marjorie Taylor Green

US Rep. Brandon Williams had his upstate New York home “swatted” on Christmas Day by an unknown prankster, just hours after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was also visited by...

'Grand Theft Auto' actor 'swatted' during livestream: 'I gotta go'

The actor took a phone call apparently warning him before he abruptly ended his stream.

Man behind Ivy League 'doxxing trucks' has home searched by gun-toting SWAT team

In security camera footage from Adam Guillette's home shared exclusively with The Post, officers with rifles strapped to their chests are seen knocking on his door.

Man arrested after tossing furniture out window of Caesars Palace in Vegas, holding woman hostage 

A man was allegedly holding a woman at gunpoint in the Vegas hotel room and throwing furniture out of the window.

Cancer-stricken nurse dies weeks after she was hit by stray bullets inside Hollywood home

Larisa Pereshivaylova, 57, died more than six weeks after she was shot twice by bullets that pierced a wall of her West Hollywood apartment.

Texas police destroyed a cancer survivor's house. A new legal maneuver may force the city to pay

A SWAT team smashed Vicki Baker's brand-new fence, shot dozens of tear gas canisters through the walls, windows and roof, and used what Baker describes as a "bomb" to blow...

SWAT team responds to rifle-wielding woman at Trump Tower Chicago

A woman brandishing a rifle reportedly walked into a skyscraper owned by Donald Trump causing a major security alert on Wednesday.

Oregon kidnapping suspect dies of self-inflicted gunshot after tense standoff

Grants Pass Police Department Lt. Jeff Hattersley told KTVL-TV that Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died at a hospital hours after he was taken into custody in Grants Pass, Oregon.

Unarmed ‘disabled’ man wrongly suspected of holding hostage is shot by cops

Video shows the moment an unarmed Jason Kloepfer, 41, was shot multiple times by SWAT team officers in North Carolina who responded to a call about a hostage situation.