Today is April 1, 2023. April 1st is known to have some sort of April fools joke, but this article is not to be taken lightly.
A man in Washington will face up to 10 felony counts of making swatting calls. We covered one case where a Kansas man was killed and a California man arrested.
If you need podcast 274 which is linked, let me know and I’ll get it available for you.
podcast 268 which can be made available upon request is also covering some of these.
Other coverage talks about some of these stories too.
Today, the article is titled Man charged in 20-plus calls of false threats in US, Canada — including Pa. which was posted to Mastodon by our own Brian Krebs.
He’s covered stories like this one and they’re linked from my blog above.
U.S. authorities on Thursday said they arrested a Washington state man who made more than 20 “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada, prompting real emergency responses to his fake reports of bombs, shootings or other threats.
The article continues:
Ashton Connor Garcia, 20, of Bremerton, used voice-over-internet technology to conceal his identity as he placed the calls last year — and he treated them as entertainment, broadcasting them on the social media platform Discord, federal prosecutors said.
Can you imagine 10 felony counts for this?
He faces 10 felony counts filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Washington, that could bring up to a decade in prison. Court records did not immediately indicate if Garcia had an attorney who might speak on his behalf.
In these instances, nobody was hurt, but as we know, it is pretty bad.
Please read the entire article. It won’t surprise me if this gets our moron of podcast 138 and we’ll continue to work on our show notes in the not too distant future.
I love arrests, and this was good.
Here is the post from Brian that got me to read this article.
BrianKrebs: Another serial swatter (allegedly) gets…swatted.
U.S. authorities on Thursday said they arrested a Washington state man who made more than 20 “swatting” calls around the country and in Canada, prompting real emergency responses to his fake reports of bombs, shootings or other threats.
Ashton Connor Garcia, 20, of Bremerton, used voice-over-internet technology to conceal his identity as he placed the calls last year — and he treated them as entertainment, broadcasting them on the social media platform Discord, federal prosecutors said.
He faces 10 felony counts filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Washington, that could bring up to a decade in prison. Court records did not immediately indicate if Garcia had an attorney who might speak on his behalf.
https://www.wesa.fm/courts-justice/2023-03-30/arrest-hoax-active-shooter-calls
Enjoy your time. You’re still young, but these types of crimes are not taken lightly.
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