Republican Sen. Rick Scott's Naples home was 'swatted' two days after Christmas when someone lodged a fake call sending police to his home under false pretenses that there was a shooting.
Police responded to a call to Scott's home in Naples, Florida around 9:00 p.m. Wednesday evening claiming that a shooting occurred on his block.
The incident with Scott, 71, came two days after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was also 'swatted' on Christmas Day.
A 'swat' call refers to when a prankster makes a fraudulent distress call that deploys police to a high profile individual's home to respond to a made-up emergency.
The Naples Police Department confirmed that the alleged shooting did not occur and the call to Scott's house was a 'swatting' incident that remains under investigation.
Rep. Greene also said that her home was hit with these fake threats while her family was enjoying holiday festivities inside - and said such calls have happened multiple times since taking office.
'I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here,' MTG wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
She added: 'My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn't have to deal with this. I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!'
The Georgia congresswoman did not elaborate on the nature of the threats but she has been targeted previously by what her office described as 'political attacks'.
The 49-year-old politician was swatted twice in August this year. On August 23, the Rome Police Department said officers 'responded to a 911 call reference to a subject being shot multiple times at an address within the city limits.'
According to the police report, the caller said a man had been shot at MTG's home and that a woman and children could still be inside.
When cops turned up at her home, she assured them there was no issue and the call was determined to be a swatting incident.
The police report went on to say officers 'received a second call from the suspect who was using a computer generated voice stating that he/she was upset about Mrs. Greene's political view on transgender youth rights.'
The next day, her home was targeted again by a prank caller who told cops they had gunned down her family and threatened to kill any officers who came to the door.
MTG thanked her local police department in a tweet about the incident. 'Last night, I was swatted just after 1 am.
'I can't express enough gratitude to my local law enforcement here in Rome, Floyd County. More details to come.'
Her office confirmed that a 'political attack' took place on Greene's home in a statement to DailyMail.com.
The act of 'swatting' generally entails making a prank call to emergency services to get law enforcement to descend on somebody's home.
Greene led GOP criticism of federal law enforcement ever since the FBI's unannounced search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on August 8, 2022.
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