‘Defund the police’ advocate Alyssa Milano calls 911 for ‘armed gunman on her property’ who was teen with an air gun
ACTRESS and "Defund the police" advocate Alyssa Milano appeared to go against her beliefs when she called the cops on suspicions of an armed gunman on her property in California.
On Sunday, at least seven vehicles the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, a K-9 unit, a police helicopters and a Fire Department squad raced to the 47-year-old's home inside a gated community north of LA.
Milano and her husband Dave Bugliari, 39, reportedly dialed 911 when they heard what they thought were gunshots outside their $2.5 million property in Bell Canyon.
The couple told the emergency hotline the sound "scared their dogs" and made them feel like the gunman was nearby.
"We first noticed the helicopter circling overhead very low and knew something was going on, it's usually such a quiet community," a neighbor told the .
"Then we saw all the police cars parked in front of Alyssa's home. They had their guns at the ready and seemed very serious."
Police received a description for a suspect believed to be a 40-year-old male with a long rifle.
Milano and Bugliari were also concerned that someone was possibly stalking the former Charmed star.
In 2008, Jeff Turner, a then-54-year-old man who she claimed tried to break into her current home twice.
Authorities guarded the perimeter around her house as law enforcement searched the skies and streets, a process that lasted over three hours before it ended abruptly at 12:20pm.
"It turned out it was a neighborhood teen with an air gun shooting at squirrels," a resident told the Mail.
The teenage boy turned himself into police when he witnessed the emergency response and later realized he was the cause of the commotion.
In July, the left-leaning activist urged her 3.7 million Twitter followers to sign the People's Budget LA, a petition that demands a 90 percent reduction in police funding.
Last month, she simply tweeted "#DefundThePolice" in response to a video that appeared to show cops pointing their guns at three black teenagers who called for help after being attacked by a homeless man.
But her tweets seem to be at odds with her actions on Sunday, with one neighbor claiming the actress "uses her platform in hypocritical ways.
"She can tweet those things because at the end of the day she lives behind gates in a gated community. She knows the police will come to save her. But what about all those people who don't have that luxury and live in unsafe neighborhoods? She obviously doesn't care," one neighbor said.
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"She uses her platform in hypocritical ways. Why not send your husband into the yard to find out what is actually going on before you call the police? I would guesstimate the response today from law enforcement cost tax payers thousands of dollars."
Milano has owned her Bell Canyon home since 2001.
She lives on the sprawling 1.94 acre property with her husband and their two children, nine-year-old Milo and six-year-old Elizabella.
