Law roundup: Man calls dispatchers hoping to swat swatting attempt

Informed on a chatting website that he was about to get a visit from law enforcement, a Kalispell area resident contacted the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office in an attempt to head off the confrontation. The man told dispatchers someone warned he was about to get “swatted,” meaning another individual was going to report an emergency at his location in the hopes of sending in first responders. Dispatchers described the man, who asked that law enforcement ignore any requests to come to him, as having “very bad anxiety...