ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - St. Joseph County Councilwoman Amy Drake says her house was swatted overnight prior to a vote on a rezoning proposal needed for a $12 billion data center project near New Carlisle.

The councilwoman says the Department of Child Services and several officers from the St. Joseph County Police Department came to her Granger home at 2 a.m. for a welfare check while she was still hearing public testimony on the data center project at the County City Building in South Bend.

“I received an alert from my husband that the DCS and police wanted to question him and my scared children at my home in Granger,” Drake said in a statement sent to WNDU 16 News Now. “The frightening and unwarranted middle-of-the-night disruption was done by bad actors who wanted to harass

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