Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Secretary of State, was targeted in a fake emergency call just one day after her decision to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot.
Maine State Police said they responded to a hoax emergency call at the secretary of state’s house on Friday night. Bellows lives in the small town of Manchester, which holds a population of less than 2,500 people, according to data from 2020. The town sits just outside of the capital of Maine.An unidentified man called and said he had broken into Bellows’ home in Manchester. Bellows, 48, and her family were not home at the time of the call. Police checked both the inside and outside of her home, but did not find anyone. Nothing suspicious was found, either, according to reports.Bellows is not the first politician to experience “swatting”—the intent of which is to get Swat teams, and other first responders, to show up to a residence following a fake phone call to emergency services.
