Teen Faces Decades in Prison for Major Swatting Operation

Teen Faces Decades in Prison for Major Swatting Operation

Alan Winston Filion, an 18-year-old from California, has admitted guilt to federal charges related to a swatting incident that involved more than 375 fake bomb and shooting threats. Swatting is when someone makes false emergency calls to dispatch heavily armed police, like SWAT teams, to a location, claiming there is a serious threat. Filion’s pranks targeted […]

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