Chris Brown's Hollywood Hills home
is reportedly the latest target of celebrity "swatting," in which false
911 calls are made reporting incidents at celebrities' homes. Police
visited Brown's house on Monday after being alerted to an alleged
domestic violence incident. Brown wasn't home, according to KTLA. He's not the only star who has been targeted recently.
Chris Brown
A 12-year-old Southern California boy admitted he made a fake emergency call that sent police to Ashton Kutcher's Hollywood home last year.
The juvenile's "swattting" also
targeted Justin Bieber's Calabasas, California, home and a bank, the
Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman said.
Dozens of emergency
personnel rushed to Kutcher's home on October 3, 2012, only to find
workers inside and no emergency, police said. Kutcher, who was on the
set of his TV sitcom "Two and a Half Men," also rushed to his home.
"The comments of the call
advised that there were individuals inside the location with guns and
explosives, and that several people had been shot," a police statement
said.
The boy, who is being
prosecuted as a juvenile and not identified, will be sentenced by a
juvenile judge in his home county, according to the spokeswoman for the
Los Angeles County district attorney.
"Swatting" usually is
done by computer hackers, who use online skills to make a false report
of a serious crime in progress, police said. "The swatting practice is
extremely dangerous and places first responders and citizens in harm's
way," police said.
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