"Police say Gardener texted her husband and said a strange man forced his way into their home after she opened the door. She also allegedly sent him a photo showing what appeared to be a man lying on their couch, covered in a blanket, and told him that that was the intruder. Her husband then called 911 to report what he believed to be a break-in, and a little before 1030 am on October 8, eight police cars raced to the purported scene of the crime, emergency lights and sirens blasting."
"Upon arrival, the officers and Gardener's husband found her sitting alone, on the couch, with a cell-phone mounted on a tripod aimed at the door. Gardener then admitted that she sent the photo and text messages as a prank, and used AI to generate an image of the fake intruder, according to police. "It was at that time that they were advised that this was some kind of prank on TikTok," Lieutenant Ari Elkin told DC News Now."
A 27-year-old Maryland woman allegedly used AI to generate an image of a fake intruder and sent the image and texts to her husband, prompting him to call 911. Montgomery County officers arrived to find the woman alone with a phone mounted on a tripod; she admitted the image and messages were part of a prank tied to TikTok. Police arrested her on October 10 and charged her with making false statements to a state official; she was released on a $10,000 bond. Authorities warned that false 911 reports and so-called swatting waste resources, endanger lives, and carry serious legal consequences.
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