zeruch"“For well over a year, #AlanFilion targeted religious institutions, schools, government officials, and other innocent victims with hundreds of false threats of imminent mass shootings, bombings and other violent crimes. He caused profound fear and chaos and will now face the consequences of his actions,”...Filion intended to cause as much harm as possible and tried to profit from the activity by offering #swatting-for-a-fee services"
What the absolute hell?
https://apnews.com/article/swatting-florida-california-teen-pleads-e1d532c66e24f98914724aa34d9003b3
California teen pleads guilty in Florida to making hundreds of 'swatting' calls across the US
Federal prosecutors say a California teenager pleaded guilty Wednesday in a case involving the swatting of a Florida mosque, among other institutions and individuals. Swatting is the practice of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a particular address. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida said in a news release that 18-year-old Alan W. Filion, of Lancaster, California, entered the plea to four counts of making interstate threats to injure the person of another. He faces up to five years in prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
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