Not worried. The government has a job to do. Let them do their job. Okay . Im very comfortable with where were at right now. Once we get this ugly scenario by everything will be fine. Reporter targets of multiple searches fbi spoke man would say only they were part of Ongoing Investigation included the headquarters of ibew local 98 the Electrical Workers Union where johnny dock is the longtime business manager. Ibw Training Facility anbar owned by dougherty. Nothing for anybody to find. Theres nothing there. Im the most vetted guy in philadelphia in 20 years. Reporter federal agents seized boxes of documents and other materials from the City Hall Office and the home of city councilman bobby heenan. Bew official and longtime dougherty pro thai jay. Back at doughertys home spokesman frank keal notice the feds have been after dock for years. Its somewhat puzzling theyre investigating johns home because nothing in johns home or about johns home has changed in the last 10 years since the la
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. Delaware Police Detective on the wrong side of the law tonight charged with arson and conspiracy. Police say it all started when the wilmington detectives car was set on fire. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Investigators now say he set the wheels in motion. Wilmington mayor calls it deeply troubling. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live at the Wilmington Police department. Chris . Reporter lucy, eight Year Police Veteran is out on bail and off the job tonight here from the Wilmington Police department charged with trying to higher someone to set his own car on fire. Wilmington police say it was tuesday night when detective omar reddick called his own Police Department to report an arson. Someone had torched his car with gasoline in the parking lot of liquor store on the 3100 block of lancaster avenue. At the time police thought detective reddick was being targeted during ongoing gang investigation. But when a su
Officers searched room by room only to find no victims. It was all a hoax. And its part of a dangerous trend thats even hit hearing g evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell spoke to concerned police in our area. Chris. Thats right, lucy. What happened at the rappers home in miami is eye phenomenon Law Enforcement becoming all too many with. Seemingly harmless crime that police say puts lives in danger. The calls come over 911 or social media. Immediate chaos. Theres been a shooting a hostage being held or an abduction. And as swat teams descend on the scene, and buildings evacuated the call turns out to be hoax. It creates a kind of a catastrophic event thats pranked. The not real. Reporter its called swatting. When someone makes a bogus call to lure police into respond. Upper darby Police Superintendent Mike Chitwood says its happened here. A call that a woman was abducted on marlboro road. We respond. We surround the house. We then gingerly knock on the door. A
Theres been a shooting a hostage being held or an abduction. And as swat teams descend on the scene, and buildings evacuated the call turns out to be hoax. It creates a kind of a catastrophic event thats pranked. The not real. Reporter its called swatting. When someone makes a bogus call to lure police into respond. Upper darby Police Superintendent Mike Chitwood says its happened here. A call that a woman was abducted on marlboro road. We respond. We surround the house. We then gingerly knock on the door. And sure enough, the owner of the house comes in. Theres nobody in here. You guys can come in. We go in and get a consent search look through the house it turns out to be nothing. Reporter chitwood says swatting puts not only law ends are force many but citizens in danger san huge waste of money. I mean its something that could be used to commit a crime too. Send all the resources to one end of town and commit a robbery of a bank. Reporter high profile celebrities like Ryan Seacrest
Here all night long. Reporter thats a big part of the outrage. Police and firefighters were responding to a Carbon Monoxide alarm next door when they found the sub links alone late last night. Cops say the Carbon Monoxide was coming from wrights house with an open stove heating the home along with a space heater upstairs not far from the children. A, the Living Conditions these poor children had to live in was bad enough. But then theyre put in harms way with Carbon Monoxide and governor bid there could have been a fire. Reporter Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood says wright was arrested once she got back home charged with Child Welfare and endear injury many charge. The father of one of the kids took both of them. Authorities condemn the home saying its unfit to be lived in in. Thats real bad. She pretty much she need to grow up. Somewhat surpriseing . This is not the upper darby of 20 years ago. Reporter police say wright is facing two counts of Child Welfare endangerment and po