A 20 year-old man from Akron, Ohio, is facing potential swatting-related charges after calling in a bomb threat to police in the wrong Ottawa.
The individual — whose name has not yet been released — only realized he reached police in the wrong Ottawa on Monday after calling a second time to claim he had been shot, according to Ohio’s Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Captain Brad Brubaker.
“As soon as the dispatcher advised him he called Ohio … he said, ‘Wait, wait, I’m not shot,'” Brubaker told CBC News.
Swatting refers to prank calls to emergency services claiming life-threatening situations to trigger an armed police response to
