Fuentes Victim Of 'Swatting' Incidents: Cops

BERWYN, IL – Nicholas Fuentes, a nationally known racist, lives in Berwyn, not with his parents in La Grange Park anymore, according to police reports.

As of a month ago, Fuentes was registered to vote at his parents' house. But police reports indicate he lived in Berwyn as recently as August.

Through a public records request, Patch obtained reports on "swatting" incidents at Fuentes' house on Home Avenue in Berwyn. This is apparently where Fuentes streams his white nationalist podcasts.

Swatting is when people make prank calls to the police to bring emergency responders to a specific address. It is against the law.

The police reports indicate that Fuentes' parents have been swatted at least once. The FBI is investigating the pattern, police said.

Last March, a man called 911 to say he had just shot his girlfriend in the head and that she was not breathing, police said. The caller gave the address where Fuentes lives.

Officers first came into contact with Jaden McNeil, another nationally known white nationalist. McNeil was associated at the time with Fuentes, but has since cut ties.

Both Fuentes and McNeil told officers that they were having issues with "online haters" because of their political views.

Fuentes said he randomly would get threats, which were always from anonymous phone numbers and screen names, police said.

The report referred to McNeil as the basement tenant and Fuentes as the top-floor tenant.

In April, police reported that someone called about bombs being inside the Home Avenue house. After Fuentes consented to a search, officers found no explosives. Fuentes was streaming live during the search, police said.

In August, someone called a military crisis hotline to say someone with the name "Nicholas" made suicidal and homicidal statements and that he had a gun close by at the Home Avenue address, police said. No one was home.

At that point, the basement and first-floor apartments were vacant, police said.

In November, Fuentes and rapper Ye, better known as Kanye West, dined with President Donald Trump.

In a podcast two years ago, Fuentes said Trump was "awesome" because he was racist and sexist. But he lamented Trump was not antisemitic.

Fuentes also has entered the realm of Holocaust denial — a favorite of white supremacists. He is on video comparing the Nazi killing of millions of Jews with cookie-baking.

In 2016, Fuentes graduated from Lyons Township High School. He served as student body president his last year.