Buttigieg was briefly separated from his children after police say he was target of false report

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https://apnews.com/article/buttigieg-police-false-report-anonymous-0e0a586db4efcb63e70344f2b1f8fe98

Buttigieg was briefly separated from his children after police say he was target of false report
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Updated 3:32 PM CDT, June 26, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins.

According to Buttigieg, a Michigan State Police officer and a child protective services worker came to his home in Traverse City after they received an anonymous report alleging he posed a danger to his children. Authorities arranged forensic interviews for his twins and instructed him not to be alone with them until the interviews were complete.

Buttigieg described the 24-hour ordeal in a Substack post as “among the darkest hours of my life.”

Michigan State Police said in a statement to The Associated Press they received an “anonymous report” and that they and child protective services “responded and determined the report was false.”

Buttigieg said investigators told him the anonymous caller claimed he had confessed years earlier to violent crimes during a chance meeting in Alabama. Buttigieg said he had never been to the town where the meeting allegedly occurred.

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1. False arrest. MSP should be held accountable.

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2. My God...

There is no bottom to these monsters.

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3. NO..................

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4. MS NOW-Buttigieg says his family was target of 'politically motivated hoax'

The former transportation secretary described it as “the ugliest thing that has happened to me since my career in service began.”

Buttigieg Says his Family was Target of ‘Politically Motivated Hoax’ www.ms.now/news/buttigi... #horrific

— ljconrad (@ljconrad.bsky.social) 2026-06-26T20:15:20.728Z

https://www.ms.now/news/buttigieg-says-his-family-was-target-of-politically-motivated-hoax

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said his family has been targeted in a “politically motivated hoax” after someone made what police characterized as a false report to Child Protective Services alleging he committed crimes against his children.

In a Substack post Friday, Buttigieg wrote that an anonymous caller reported to CPS that his 4-year-old twins he shares with his husband, Chasten, were “at risk.”

“The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk,” Buttigieg wrote.

Buttigieg, a prominent Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender, likened the incident to “swatting” — when someone calls 911 to falsely report an immediate threat, often at a public figure’s home — “but with Child Protective Services instead of a SWAT team.”

As a result of the allegation, Buttigieg said a CPS worker told him he could not be around his children unsupervised for 24 hours while the allegation was investigated. He and his husband dropped the children off with their grandparents for the night, beginning what Buttigieg described as “among the darkest hours of my life.”.....

The police officer on the case “made clear that he believed this was politically motivated, and said it would not be referred to a prosecutor,” Buttigieg wrote. “Nothing in the forensic interview with the children, which was conducted by trained personnel, had led to concerns.”

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5. Meanwhile, an adjudicated sexual assaulter & credibly accused CHILD sexual abuser, sits in the Oval Office

I hope police find who made the false report against Pete and that person is punished to the fullest extent of the law.

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6. One reason I'm supporting Swanson for Governor of Michigan.

He is the only one capable of cleaning up the Michigan State Police corruption.
Too bad few know who he is.