TROY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A husband and wife were awakened early Wednesday morning when a SWAT team surrounded their home. But it was a false alarm.

“Swatting” is a prank that tricks police into descending on unsuspecting homeowners where no crime was actually committed. Now police believe that may have happened in Troy.

“Like trying to knock the door down,” Ben Suhr said.

That jarring sound is what Suhr and his wife woke to early Wednesday morning.

“I slammed the door back with my fist, opened the door, and came out,” Suhr explained. “They were all standing right here with rifles and shotguns.”

Suhr’s wife is eight months pregnant and on bed rest due to health issues.

“And we’re already very nervous about what’s going on, and seven assault rifles really scared her,” he said.

Troy police said they were acting on texts that claimed a woman was being held hostage inside the 1st Street apartment.

“I was like, ‘Yeah, there’s no hostages here, man,’” Suhr said.

No hostage was ever found and the incident could have been a case of swatting. But Suhr doesn’t buy that explanation.

“It’s starting to seem more like they were looking for heroin dealers than looking for this girl being held at gunpoint,” he said.

Suhr doesn’t believe someone was trying to prank him, but instead that police carried out a drug raid on the wrong house by accident.

“I mean, they could have just told me, ‘Hey, we’re looking for heroin dealers,’” he said. “I’d be like, ‘Cool man. Come on in. I don’t have any of that, either.’”

Police maintain the possible hostage situation was the reason for the raid. Suhr said he was just happy his two kids weren’t home and that his wife is okay.

“Cause she’s more scared of the cops than the robbers now,” he said.

Suhr said police apologized to him for the scare, but he said the incident is a contributing factor for him to move out of Troy.