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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Four years is not enough.
The boy should be charged for every penny that was wasted because he’s a friggin’ total retard.
EARNS A DEATH SENTENCE just for the ripple effect, even if nobody died.
Idiot was apparently advertising to do this for a fee...
It is not. He should also have to pay the expenses of those raids and any property damage or medical expenses.
“Four years is not enough.”
Four years hard labor would do it.
Yes, he’s going to be a punk.
In his defense, that forehead gap looks like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Take a look at him - you think that is going to make it through four years in prison? He’ll be a little ball of fluff before he gets a parole hearing.
Ah yes, the trans...almost always the trans.
It should be four millenniums.
And deservedly so.
Alan or Alice?
He wanted attention. Now he will get a lot of it.
In prison.
He shore has a purty mouth.
Everyone who was SWATed by this jackarse and every cop who was involved should be given a paddle and lined up on both sides of an alley. Anyone too feeble gets a second selected from a team of major League baseballplayers to fill in. Then let him run the gauntlet however long that line is... in shackles.
SURE WOULD LIKE TO SE A PIC AFTER 4 YEARS-—
IF HE LASTS THAT LONG
Four years? You think he will do four years? I had a friend whose uncontrollable son killed someone while driving, not DUI, but a long story. In the promise the LA DA pushed to get the victims family to agree to a plea deal, the kid was supposed to do a solid four years. He was out in 18 months.
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