Posted on 02/11/2025 1:18:42 PM PST by DFG
A Los Angeles County teenager was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday after admitting to making more than 375 "swatting calls" in which he made false reports of bomb and mass shooting threats at locations around the U.S.
Alan W. Filion, an 18-year-old Lancaster resident, admitted in a plea agreement to carrying out calls targeting places such as high schools, colleges and universities, religious institutions and people such as government officials, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors said he intended for the calls to result in major emergency responses by law enforcement.
This led to some calls that left law enforcement officers unavailable to respond to real emergencies while they were busy responding to the fake threats being reported by Filion, according to prosecutors. Meanwhile, some calls resulted in officers arriving to a given location with their weapons drawn and detaining people, prosecutors said.
In one social media post, made on Jan. 20, 2023, Filion claimed that he "usually get[s] the cops to drag the victim and their families out of the house cuff them and search the house for dead bodies," the Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday.
He admitted in the plea deal to making the calls between August 2022 and January 2024.
In November, he pleaded guilty to four counts of making interstate threats to injure the person of another. At the time, federal prosecutors said he could face up to five years in prison on each count — for a maximum possible sentence of 20 years.
Filion ended up receiving 48 months in prison when he was sentenced Tuesday.
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Catering to leftwingers. Extradited to Florida for doing it to a mosque... he or whomever his customer was, was really trying to a lot of public relations damage, and possible loss of life. It would be interesting to find out who paid him for this one :
...The incident in question involves a threatening call made to the Masjid Al Hayy Mosque in Sanford, Florida, in May 2023. Filion allegedly claimed he was armed with a handgun and explosives, intending to commit a mass shooting “in the name of Satan,” a claim underscored by the sound of gunfire played during the call. This hoax prompted a massive law enforcement response, with approximately 30 officers dispatched to the mosque....
He could have gotten people killed.
“Four years? You think he will do four years?”
He will do almost all of it. There’s no parole in the Federal system.
L
This.
Four years on the road gang; five and one-half days a week.
I'm not without compassion.
Oops, sorry, I didn’t notice it was federal. Yep, not much time off there.
People are focusing to much on the Swatter
The real tell will be the people who purchased his services through his website that the FBI confiscated last week.
They have the Bitcoin traces now.
This is going to get very interesting once they charge his accomplices clients who paid for the swats
I altered the above sentence because accomplices they are not, they are clients.
Don't have any evidence that he believes he is a she, other than the long hair. Which means nothing to me, on that issue. Being a scumbag that has no moral compass that pouts innocent people into dangerous situations is bad enough.
But it is still early. He may indeed be trans. We shall see what transpires.
August 2022: wonder if he had anything to do with this:
FBI barricades headquarters in DC
American Military News ^ | AUGUST 15, 2022 | LIZ GEORGE
Posted on 8/16/2022, 11:14:04 AM by rod5591
Authorities erected barricades around the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters office in Washington, D.C. over the weekend. The bureau claims it has seen an increase in threats against the FBI and its agents in the wake of the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home last week.
Associated Press reporter Mike Balsamo tweeted photos of the new barricades around the FBI headquarters.
“With an increasing number of threats against the FBI and agents, including an armed man who tried to breach a field office in Ohio, officials have put up barricades around FBI headquarters in DC. Similar fencing was put up after the unrest in DC in 2020 & after the Capitol riot,” he wrote.
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He wanted to be the next David Hogg. That little punk is still flying high.
Now the civil suits from the victims can begin.
He swatted Tim Poole and Jeremy of the Quartering.
Eighteen years old, eh? The hard core inmates are probably having a drawing to see which one of them will have him as a bride first.
He should face 375 charges of attempted first degree murder.
Does he identify as a girl?
Not that I am aware of.
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