WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.–Three Indiana Republican State Senators have been victims of swatting, the latest of which was Republican Spencer Deery in West Lafayette.

Swatting is an incident in which someone with ill intention notifies law enforcement via phone call, email or other form of communication of a false emergency at a targeted location. The end goal of this is to generate as large a scale law enforcement response as possible.

“Not only is this potentially dangerous to everyone involved, but it’s also illegal. I’m not really sure what motivates someone to do something like this,” said State Police Captain Ron Galaviz on Thursday.

A call came at around 8 am Thursday to the West Lafayette Police Department saying that there was a “domestic abuse situation” going on at the Deery househo

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