Blueface Cuffed at Santa Clarita Restaurant in Second Swatting Call in Weeks

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies swarmed a restaurant in Santa Clarita on Sunday after an emergency call reported severe violence inside, ordering rapper Blueface to step outside and cuffing him while he knelt on the ground before releasing him minutes later once they determined no crime had occurred. His girlfriend, Nevaeh Akira, was seen on livestream holding their newborn son as deputies detained several people, including Blueface, during the response.

The confrontation was captured on a livestream showing Blueface and Akira during the police response, according to TMZ. A witness also livestreamed the incident from outside, and at one point Blueface told Akira to take his phone and go back inside the restaurant. Police released everyone after determining the call was, per law enforcement sources cited in the report, an apparent swatting incident. Blueface did not provide comment to the outlet.

A Familiar Scene in Canyon Country

This was not the rapper's first brush with a fabricated emergency call this summer. Just over a month earlier, on July 22, Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's deputies responded to Blueface's Canyon Country home after false reports of a shooting while he was broadcasting live on Kick, according to the Hindustan Times. That call, like Sunday's, ended with deputies determining no actual crime had taken place after detaining the rapper.

Swatting calls like these often rely on phone-spoofing technology to disguise a caller's identity and provoke a heavy armed police response, according to FBI public service guidance. The bureau has noted that perpetrators frequently exploit publicly visible livestreams to monitor how law enforcement reacts in real time, a dynamic that fits a high-profile streamer like Blueface, whose whereabouts are often broadcast to thousands of viewers.

A Turbulent Few Weeks for Blueface and Akira

Sunday's incident capped an eventful stretch for the couple. Just five days earlier, on August 18, Blueface and Akira welcomed their son, Johnathan Jamall Porter Jr., during a hospital livestream, as reported by Complex. Before that, on August 14, Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies conducted a welfare check at Blueface's home after a Kick livestream appeared to show him kicking his then-pregnant girlfriend into a pool; Akira told officers no physical altercation had occurred, and no arrests were made in that incident.

Blueface also drew police attention earlier in the month when he was pulled over in San Diego on August 11 for equipment violations, though no arrest resulted from that stop either. The rapper, born Jonathan Jamall Porter, rose to prominence in 2018 with his viral single “Thotiana,” which reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. He was released from California State Prison in Los Angeles this past November after serving 21 months of a four-year sentence tied to a probation violation stemming from a 2021 assault on a nightclub bouncer in North Hollywood, according to iHeart.

The Legal Stakes of a Fake Call

Whoever placed Sunday's call faces real legal exposure under California law. Knowingly reporting a false emergency is a misdemeanor under California Penal Code Section 148.3, punishable by up to a year in county jail, a $1,000 fine, and reimbursement of up to $10,000 per incident for emergency response costs, according to FindLaw. If a false report results in great bodily injury or death, the offense becomes a felony carrying up to three years in state prison and fines up to $10,000.

State lawmakers have moved to toughen those penalties further. In 2026, California legislators introduced Assembly Bill 327, which would elevate repeat false emergency reporting from a misdemeanor to a potential felony and expand financial liability for property damage caused during emergency responses, according to the California Civil Liberties Advocacy group. The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station, which provides contract law enforcement for the city and surrounding unincorporated communities of roughly 290,000 residents about 26 miles north of Los Angeles, has now responded to at least two swatting calls tied to Blueface's home turf within a matter of weeks.

The rapper's run-ins with Santa Clarita-area law enforcement have drawn scrutiny before. Hoodline previously reported on an LAPD shutdown of a party featuring Blueface and fellow rapper DDG in nearby Tarzana, which drew roughly 200 attendees before officers broke it up over reports of fights. As of Sunday, no arrests had been made in connection with the false report that brought deputies to the Santa Clarita restaurant, and the identity of the caller remained unknown.