Alan Filion started his career Swatting people at age 16 in 2022. Swatting is where someone spoofs a phone number and calls police, telling them that someone’s murdered their family, or planted bombs, or holding someone hostage in an effort to elicit an urgent, heavily armed police response. It can (and has) led to the death of the targets of the calls if they don’t act super submissive to responding cops/SWAT teams.
This little perp Alan did over 375 of these swattings. That’s one every day or two. He risked peoples’ lives with every one of those calls. Especially calls to the homes of gun owners used to coming to the door armed for pounding on the door at oh-dark-hundred. Most will keep the gun concealed, but not all.
He’s pleaded to four of those and will be sentenced in February. They’re saying he might get five years. That doesn’t seem nearly enough. Maybe five years for every call, served consecutively. In a North Korean prison.
The U.S. Department of Justice announces that Callifornia-based teenager Alan W. Filion, currently 18, has pleaded guilty to four counts of ‘making interstate threats to injure the person of another’ as a result of over 375 swatting and threat calls made since August 2022 up to January 2024. Filion will likely face a maximum penalty of up to five years for each count, scheduled for sentencing on February 11, 2025.
Get the pinchers from Mike after he’s done with them.
It seems if any one of his calls lead to a fatality, he’s at the very least guilty of manslaughter, more like some level of murder as there was definitely malice aforethought involved in choosing his targets!