Summary

Alan Filion, 18, of Lancaster, California, pleaded guilty to four counts of making interstate threats in one of the most prolific “swatting” cases ever prosecuted.

Filion made over 375 swatting and threat calls from August 2022 to January 2023, targeting schools, religious institutions, government officials, and FBI agents.

Prosecutors say he turned swatting into a business, advertising his services on social media for profit.

His hoaxes, which included bomb and mass shooting threats, caused widespread fear and chaos. Filion faces up to 20 years in prison.

  • @lennybird
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    231 month ago

    I kind of just want to send him letters in prison, pages long of just, “hahahahah.”

    • @x00z
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      141 month ago

      SWAT him in prison.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        Prisons are awful. Put him under house arrest and then swat him. Say he’s got the manifesto stashed in his pooper.

    • @pivot_root
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      1 month ago

      For good measure, throw in a couple of fake screenshots of users on 4chan and Reddit calling him a “script kiddie”. That will get much deeper under his skin than spam will.

      • @lennybird
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        11 month ago

        That’s cruel & unusual punishment, that is.