The illegal practice of swatting has been with us for a while now, unfortunately. As most of you likely know, swatting is when someone pretends to call the police from that target’s home and rep.
Alan Winston Filion, 17, of Lancaster, Calif., was charged last month in connection with a false report of a mass shooting at the mosque. He is believed to have made dozens of other such calls across the country.
A California teenager believed to be behind dozens of so-called swatting calls across the country was arrested and extradited to Florida this week to face.
Tracking the teen suspect down was not easy, prosecutors said. He would disguise his identity with usernames from the fictional language used in "The Lord of the Rings."
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) A California teenager accused of swatting a Florida mosque has been arrested and transported across the country to face felony charges. Alan Winston Filion, 17, was arrested Jan. 18 by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on a warrant from Seminole County, Florida, according to court records. He was extradited to central Florida on Tuesday to face three charges of false