LOS ANGELES (AP) – A California teenager was sentenced to four years in a case that included hundreds of swatting calls, including the Florida Mosque, among other agencies and individuals, federal prosecutors said. said.
Alan W. Fillion, 18, pleaded guilty in November to four counts of interstate threats of hurting others. Swatting is a practice of calling for pranks on emergency services in order to attempt to send a large number of armed police officers to a specific address.
The US lawyers’ firm said Fillion had more than 375 swatting and threat calls between August 2022 and January 2024. He said those calls include those claiming to have planted bombs at target locations or calls that were threatened to detonate bombs or carry mass shootings at those locations. said the prosecutor.
He targeted religious institutions, high schools, universities, universities, government officials and people across the United States, prosecutors said. Fillion, Lancaster, north of Los Angeles, was 16 years old at the time of the majority of calls.
As part of the judicial agreement, he granted a call to Washington State public high schools, including one of October 2022. There, they allegedly threatened to fire masses and planted bombs throughout the campus.
He also pleaded guilty to Florida’s historically black universities and universities in May 2023, where he allegedly placed the bomb on the walls and ceilings of campus housing.
Another incident included a call to a dispatch center at a local police station in Texas in July 2023. He claimed that he misidentified himself as a senior federal law enforcement officer, provided officer address to dispatchers, killed the federal officer’s mother, and threatened to kill the corresponding officer.
