Charges possible for Ohio man who allegedly swatted police in the wrong Ottawa

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