Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was once the objective of a swatting attempt at her Georgia place of abode on Christmas morning, the congresswoman and native police stated, marking the most recent example of any individual calling in a pretend emergency to attract armed officials to her house.
The Rome Police Department temporarily verified that the decision was once a hoax and didn’t ship officials to the home, division spokesperson Kelly Madden stated.
“I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this,” Greene wrote in a post on X, previously Twitter.
A person in New York referred to as the Georgia suicide hotline simply prior to 11 a.m. Monday, claiming that he had shot his female friend at Greene’s house and was once going to kill himself subsequent, Madden stated. The name was once temporarily transferred to police when suicide hotline responders known the Georgia congresswoman’s cope with.
The division stated it contacted Greene’s personal safety element to substantiate she was once secure and that there was once no emergency at her place of abode. The name was once then decided to be a swatting attempt, so the police reaction was once canceled en course, Madden defined.
“We determined before our personnel could get to her location that there was no emergency and there was no reason to respond,” she stated. “Her security detail had it all under control, and there actually was nothing going on.”
The congresswoman, who represents the towns of Rome, Dalton and Calhoun in northwest Georgia, spent her first time period stripped of committee assignments by the previous House Democratic majority over racist comments, her embody of conspiracy theories and her previous endorsement of violence towards Democratic officers. She has since gained more influence beneath the House’s present Republican management and remains to be a firebrand for the far-right.
Greene’s commentary that she has been the objective of more or less 8 swatting makes an attempt is correct, Madden stated. Past calls claimed that useless our bodies were discovered within the bathtub bathtub and in different spaces of her house, which is positioned about 70 miles (113 kilometers) northwest of Atlanta. Police additionally answered closing 12 months to false studies of shootings out of doors her place of abode.
The division stated it despatched officials to the home based on the ones prior incidents however has since shaped an in depth operating courting with Greene’s safety element, which permits officials to raised assess the risk degree.
The division’s felony investigations department is operating to spot Monday’s caller and construct a case, Madden stated.
Another New York man was once sentenced to 3 months in jail in August for making threatening phone calls to Greene’s Washington, D.C., place of job.