Chris Brown is a victim to the latest series of local Hollywood pranks involving cops getting called to criminal activity in the area only to find out nothing is wrong.

According to reports, Breezy's crib got surrounded by police Monday (January 21).

Cops raced to Chris Brown's Hollywood Hills home Monday afternoon ... after someone called 911 and reported a domestic incident involving a gun, but we're told it was all a prank. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... the caller claimed a mother and father were in a fight and the father went to another room in the house to get a gun. At that point the caller hung up, never mentioning it was Chris Brown's house. When cops arrived there was no evidence of a gunman or for that matter any dispute. (TMZ)

The R&B star, fortunately, was not home when this all went down.LAPD law enforcement sources tell us ... they are determined to catch the culprits ... and STAT.