So-called "swatter-for-hire" Alan W. Filion, 18, pleaded guilty to calling in bomb and shooting threats, including two in ...

A Southern California teenager has pleaded guilty to swatting and calling in more than 375 threats against religious ...

A California teenager has admitted to making hundreds of swatting calls - hoax emergency calls - over a two-year period, ...

Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, has admitted to making over 375 hoax swatting calls, causing chaos and fear nationwide. Arrested after a years-long spree, Filion pleaded guilty to ...

Alan Winston Filion, 18, of Lancaster, California admitted in federal ... About 30 officers responded to the scene but found no threat. Such threats are known as “swatting,” a harassment tactic where ...

Swatting is the practice of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large ...

Lancaster teenager Alan Winston Filion pleaded guilty Wednesday to making hundreds of “swatting” calls targeting religious ...

The teenager was mostly underage at the time of the calls, but he faces up to five years for each of the four charges.

Alan Filion, 18, became a “serial swatter” for profit and entertainment and made more than 375 swatting and threat calls, ...

A California teen has pleaded guilty to making "hundreds" of swatting calls in the state of Florida, the Department of ...

Filion, 18, of Lancaster, California, pleaded guilty today in Florida to four counts of making interstate threats, admitting ...