UPDATED – 5-16-24

(5-15-24) The FBI is looking for Brayden Grace (18) who is wanted for his alleged involvement in “conspiring to place, and causing to be placed, swatting calls to multiple police and emergency departments across the country,”

Grace is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 160 lbs. He has brown hair and green eyes.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).

Grace who most recently was from Columbus, also has ties to North Lima, Ohio was allegedly part of an online group that used multiple online social media platforms to coordinate and plan swatting activities.

Swatting Definition

Swatting is a term used to describe the action of making hoax phone calls to report serious crimes to emergency services. People who carry out a swatting prank call aim to fool emergency services into sending a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team to respond to the supposed emergency.

So-called swatters will falsely report major events like bomb threats, hostage situations, and murders to encourage the most serious response from emergency services. As a result, swatting has resulted in several deaths of people innocently targeted by SWAT teams.

The alleged calls happened between December 2023 to at least January 2024.

From the FBI –