Posted on 02/01/2024 5:30:46 PM PST by lowbridge
A California teenager accused of being behind a flurry of swatting incidents across the country targeting schools and the homes of FBI agents has been arrested in connection with a swatting attempt at a Florida mosque last year, according to court documents filed by state prosecutors.
Alan Winston Filion, 17, was arrested last month at his home in Lancaster, California, and extradited to Florida on Tuesday, court documents say. He was charged as an adult on four felonies, including charges related to false reporting that triggered law enforcement response.
Filion entered a not guilty plea to the charges. He is being held without bail at the John E. Polk Correctional Facility.
Filion is allegedly behind hundreds of swatting incidents across the country targeting high schools, historically Black colleges and the homes of FBI agents, according to a motion filed by the government to secure Filion’s detention in the mosque case. He even allegedly targeted his own home.
In May of last year, deputies from the Seminole County law enforcement responded to a caller who said he was armed with a handgun and explosives and was entering the Masjid Al Hayy Mosque in Sanford, Florida, to carry out a mass shooting, according to county records.
Upon their arrival, officers said they saw a woman and her two children at the building’s entrance and identified the call as a hoax after speaking with them, records show.
According to newly unsealed court documents obtained by NBC News, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI have tracked Filion’s posts on Telegram offering up his swatting services, as well as recordings of swatting calls. They allege he was responsible for hundreds of swatting incidents, including in Louisiana, Maryland, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. The swatting attempts allegedly have included bomb threats at high schools
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Hundreds? I guess phone-tracing technology must be in its infancy.
They have caught a bad teenage boy. Unfortunately, the supply of bad teenage boys is about equal to the supply of Florida Men.
I smell BS. Swatting is most exclusively a Left wing game. Magically after 10s of thousands of Conservatives being swatted, they magically catch a guy “targeting FBT Agents, Black Schools and Mosques”.
He might serve a sentence in each state he swatted. He’ll be gone for awhile.
I think wanting the police to shoot people would qualify as a left-wing thing.
It’s amazing that they can catch the guy who swats mosques and feds, but they can never seem to find the people who swat conservatives.
According to another article he was doing this for money — $75 a pop.
in which case, it’ll be very important to track down who paid the money to him.
Seems they should have been able to catch him after the first time or two.
Great work, FBI. Glad you got him after 100s of tries.
“but they can never seem to find the people who swat conservatives.”
Or plant fake bombs in front of political HQs after driving own car and using own public transportation pass.
Yeah, the fed.gov knows exactly who did that but juuust can’t seem to find him at his home or driving his car.
I suppose they will drive by the house again next month.
Perhaps they will spot him mowing the snow in the front yard or something.
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So they can catch these people - when they really want to
Draw and quarter him.
Could have used a VPN
This boy needs a thorough psychiatric analyst.
If he already has a psychiatrist, maybe his meds need to be adjusted. He has mucho rage, just barely contained.
Eventually, if not already, his father would become a target of that rage.
The people he Swats are barely more than dots on a monitor to him, or a parade of ever changing Avatars with no meaning to him.
Maybe he’s an Incel or one of ‘Them’.
then they could only blame him for just one instead of the many committed by others swatting conservatives
Dude looks like a lady. A chubby one.
“hundreds of swattings”
Then, “a flurry of swatting incidents”
Then, “charged as an adult on FOUR felonies”
Hundreds —> Flurry —> Four
“Dude looks like a lady. A chubby one.”
I’d guess trans.
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