Swatting incident reported in Fond du Lac Friday night

Fond du Lac Police are investigating a possible swatting incident in the city Friday night, March 22, 2024.

Swatting is when a person makes a call to police reporting a major crime in hopes to get a large police presence to a particular location. In this case, a call was received on the non emergency line around 8:20 PM stating there were gun shots heard on Primrose Lane on the city’s east side and a person was crawling in the street.

Multiple officers, including the city’s armored bearcat unit responded to the area where nothing was found. A person in the area said they had been outside for 20 minutes prior to the call and they heard nothing.

As a precaution, police checked out the residence that was mentioned in the call but at this time, it appears nothing of concern was found.