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Romanian national, 26, pleads guilty to ‘swatting’ over 75 public officials, including a former US president
NY Post ^ | 06/03/2025 | Victor Nava

Posted on 06/03/2025 8:10:16 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

A Romanian national pleaded guilty on Monday to charges related to his role in a “swatting” ring that targeted dozens of public officials, including a former US president.

Going by the aliases “Plank,” “Jonah” and “Cypher,” 26-year-old Thomasz Szabo took part in a years-long conspiracy to place bogus 911 calls, claiming emergencies were taking place at the homes of top government officials, and make bomb threats against government buildings and houses of worship, according to Justice Department.

Szabo and a co-conspirator, 21-year-old Serbian national Nemanja Radovanovic, allegedly targeted about 100 people, including members of Congress, governors, cabinet-level executive branch officials and state officials.

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1 posted on 06/03/2025 8:10:16 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

Caturd says he swatted him 3 times.


2 posted on 06/03/2025 8:12:03 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Kid Shelleen

These are like attempted murders since death can sometimes result in these calls.


3 posted on 06/03/2025 8:15:58 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Kid Shelleen

Guys like these are why we need to bring back “hard labor” and public hangings.


4 posted on 06/03/2025 8:16:44 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

What intel community folks put him up to this? Why would somebody in Romania even know who Catturd is?


5 posted on 06/03/2025 8:24:20 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Kid Shelleen

6 posted on 06/03/2025 8:25:11 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (ghostwalkgettysburg.com)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Guaranteed he never swatted democrats or their locations. So who put him up to it? The CIA and USAID are extremely active in Romania right about now.


7 posted on 06/03/2025 8:25:28 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: xp38

yep- and he should be tried for attempted murder imo


8 posted on 06/03/2025 8:27:14 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: butterdezillion

With this stuff going on, maybe some American politics gets covered by Romanian social media:

From an unrelated thread:

A review of emails and documents on Hunter Biden’s laptop reveal a March 2016 meeting with then-U.S. ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm on the topic of a corruption case against Gabriel Popoviciu, a Romanian real estate tycoon. Popoviciu made more than $1 million in wire payments to Biden from November 2015 to June 2017 as he battled the corruption charges in his home country, according to a report released last week by the House Oversight Committee. While on Popoviciu’s payroll, Biden met twice with Klemm, first in November 2015 and again in March 2016....


9 posted on 06/03/2025 8:28:48 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: butterdezillion

He said their goal was to create as much chaos in the US as they could by swatting American officials and so on.


10 posted on 06/03/2025 8:30:39 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: butterdezillion

> What intel community folks put him up to this? <

Great question. It’s hard to believe that he did all this just for fun. It’s too much work, and too much risk.

So was it the CIA? Russian intelligence? The Chinese? The possibilities are almost endless.

Anyway, let me be the first to say that Thomasz Szabo did not kill himself.


11 posted on 06/03/2025 8:38:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

...Their alleged conspiracy began as early as December 2020. It continued through January 2024, using personal identifying information, including home addresses, to falsely report emergencies to provoke a police response at the victim’s home. According to the Justice Department, they used various monikers to communicate. Szabo used “Jonah,” “Jonah Goldberg,” “Plank,” “Rambler,” “War Lord,” “Shovel,” “Cypher,” “Kollectivist,” “Mortenberg Shekelstorms,” and “NotThuggin2”. Radovanovic used “XBD31,” “XDR,” “Angus,” “Thuggin,” “Thug Hunter,” “NotThuggin,” “DCL,” and “AOD.”...-—source: Jonathan Turkey Blog


12 posted on 06/03/2025 8:40:01 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Can’t find a photo of him anywhere. Interesting.


13 posted on 06/03/2025 8:41:53 AM PDT by simpson96
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1. About time that law enforcement caught someone. Lack of prior success under democratic administrations (sorry for the redundant wording since we all know the head of government can change but not the real power, the bureaucracy stays).

2. Given the previous failures of law enforcement makes me wonder if that was due to design? "cui bono”? Same people who benefit from busing in protesters, allowing ANTIFA to preform mini riots?

14 posted on 06/03/2025 8:45:33 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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Trying to create chaos in the USA starting at the very time that the FBI was working to frame patriots who questioned the stealing of the 2020 election..... hmmm.

I think I know who might have put them up to it.


15 posted on 06/03/2025 8:47:23 AM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Kid Shelleen

The real problem is just how an anonymous, untraced call can mobilize such a weaponized group like SWAT in every city to do something that really only needs a call to a legit number and a nice knock on the front door.

Our nationwide police forces act like they are crazy.


16 posted on 06/03/2025 8:49:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

From the article:

“Around Jan. 17, 2021, Szabo allegedly called another crisis intervention hotline and threatened to detonate explosives at the US Capitol Building and kill then-President-elect Joe Biden.”

So, the Capitol Building was swatted? It doesn’t sound like Biden was in jeopardy.


17 posted on 06/03/2025 8:50:31 AM PDT by ChessExpert (The Democratic party must be destroyed.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

He should be hung from the neck until dead.


18 posted on 06/03/2025 8:53:12 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: DesertRhino

Yes, they’re busy trying to rig elections and lobbying the EU.


19 posted on 06/03/2025 8:58:09 AM PDT by wrcase
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To: butterdezillion

A tool of The Weaponized...
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Good catch


20 posted on 06/03/2025 9:00:51 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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