State police investigating swatting incident in Herkimer County
Police were called to a home on Blossom Lane in the town of Schuyler Tuesday morning for what they say was a ‘swatting’ incident.
Posted: Dec 29, 2020 12:15 PM
Updated: Dec 29, 2020 12:55 PM
Posted By: WKTV
SCHUYLER, N.Y. – Police were called to a home on Blossom Lane in the town of Schuyler Tuesday morning for what they say was a ‘swatting’ incident.
According to 911.gov, swatting is falsely reporting an emergency to a public safety agency, like 911, with the intent of getting a SWAT team to go to a location where no emergency exists.
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Schuyler, N.Y. A man called Utica police early Tuesday morning with a confession:
The man told dispatchers he had shot his mother and planned to kill his three kid sisters. He also claimed to have a pipe bomb.
The New York State Police responded in force to the address given by the caller in Herkimer County, troopers said. Bomb squad and SWAT team members stood by as crisis negotiators tried to reach anyone inside home, troopers said.
SORT delivers hampers to needy families
Thursday 24 December 2020
Members of the Special Operations Response Team delivers food hampers to families in Maloney on Thursday.
The hampers were donated by businesses and the initiative was coordinated by the police. PHOTO COURTESY TTPS - PHOTO COURTESY TTPS
Members of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) assisted several families with food hampers across Trinidad on Thursday.
Police said a team of officers made deliveries to families in communities along the East-West Corridor and central Trinidad beginning from 7 am.
Insp Mark Hernandez of the Special Operations Response Team gives a bag of food to a Maloney resident on Thursday. Police delivered hampers to families in need along the East West corridor and parts of Central Trinidad on Friday. PHOTO COURTESY TTPS
Three men will appear before magistrates in the San Fernando Magistrates’ Court and the Princes Town Magistrates’ Court today, each charged with sexual penetration of a minor.
The men, ages 22, 33 and 35 years respectively, were held over the weekend in three separate exercises executed by officers of the Child Protection Unit (CPU) and the Special Operations Response Team (SORT).
In the first incident, a 22-year-old man of Chester Street, Debe, was arrested in connection with a report made by a 17-year-old girl that she allegedly was sexually assaulted by a man while at her home.
WPC Alexander, of the Southern Division CPU, led the investigation, which ended in the arrest of the suspect on December 18th.
Six men are now facing separate charges of having sex with six minors in different incidents. In the first case a 30-year-old unemployed man was granted $80,000 bail when he appeared before a Scarborough Magistrate charged with sexual penetration of a minor.
The accused will reappear before the Ccourt when the matter comes up for hearing on January 14.
The accused, who resides in Lambeau, Tobago, was arrested and charged by Tobago Division Child Protection Unit (CPU) officers following an investigation into a report made by a man that his daughter was missing.
Investigations, led by WPC Corbin-Clarke, of the Tobago CPU, resulted in the missing 15-year-old girl being found in a vehicle at the side of a roadway being sexually assaulted by a man.