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A Memphis federal judge sentenced a man to five years in prison Wednesday in an international swatting scheme over the use of the Twitter nickname @Tennessee. Federal prosecutors said the scheme led to a person s death. Swatting is the illegal practice of falsely reporting life-threatening emergencies at people s homes, causing heavily armed police to rush to the scene.
This case involves Shane Sonderman, now 20, a resident of Lauderdale County northeast of Memphis. Federal authorities accused him of working with others, including a minor in Great Britain, to use swatting as a harassment tactic to force people to give up control of a valuable asset: cool-sounding social media screen names.
Swatting death over @Tennessee Twitter nickname brings 60 months in prison
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