Swatting call prompts large law enforcement response in Canyon County

A false 911 call triggered a large law enforcement response Friday morning in Canyon County after a caller falsely claimed there had been a stabbing and threatened to shoot responding officers.

The Canyon County Sheriff’s Office said dispatch received the call around 6:50 a.m. from a juvenile male who claimed he had stabbed his mother and planned to hurt his brother at a home on the 16000 block of Kimball Avenue.

Deputies, along with officers from the Caldwell Police Department and Idaho State Police, responded to the address…

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