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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When I was in Junior High 45 years ago we had a student who I couldn’t figure out if it was a male or female. I asked the student one day. The student turned all red and stormed off. I found out later that day it was a male. Could have fouled me. I feel sorry for the students today that are required to use the proper pro nouns or get in trouble with the principal.
Another Lancaster, CA lunatic. Relatively small city that has had more than its share of criminal activity recently. Road rage shooting killed 4 year old and sheriff shooting woman in December both made the news, just a few miles away policeman was assassinated in September.
A year in Folsom would get him straightened out...
All those evil inclinations would be reamed out of him...
Is it a boy or a girl identifying as a boy?
There is a so-called “right wing” but actually leftist/socialist group called Atomwaffen which was involved in swatting back in 2018.
They swatted Old Dominion and such.
There was also the LGBT activists who swatted Target, etc.
I’m in for homosexual rape and murder..
What are you in for?
Prank phone calls
His parents should have swatted him when he was a child.
Was his/her name Pat?
Indeed or it’s some who have yet to figure out how to use it.
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