STOCKTON, Minn. – The caller on the phone demanded a Stockton woman’s email address. He threatened harassment. She didn’t recognize the caller and blocked his number and called the sheriff. Then came the harassment. The police dispatcher in Winona received a call that a bomb was at the woman’s Stockton address. It was what police have come to call a “swap” — a tactic, usually bogus, to cause an evacuation or to tie up the police or to get even or, most perversely, just for the “fun” of it. There was no bomb. Police investigators were tracing the calls.
