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Kansas woman sentenced for hoax 911 call

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman convicted in connection with a “swatting” event has been sentenced to probation.

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Reno County District Judge Joe M cCarville gave Hutchinson woman Tatumn Marie Watkins one year of probation. The 20 year old pleaded guilty last month to attempting to “give a false alarm of violent activity or a threat to life.”

Watkins and another woman allegedly called police in April to report that a man battered two family members and was outside their home with a gun “waiting for police.”

Police ordered the man outside at gunpoint, but no one was hurt. The event came several months after police fatally shot a Wichita man during a deadly hoax emergency call.

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