A Coquitlam teen who prompted numerous “swatting” incidents last year on families around Canada and the U.S. pleaded guilty last week to a dozen more charges.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified under a publication ban because of his age, has now admitted to a total of 23 offences of extortion, public mischief and criminal harassment.
He had a consistent pattern of trying to connect with the online gamers — many of them fans of the game League of Legends. But when they denied his requests, he shut down their internet access, posted their personal information online, repeatedly called them late at night and contacted the police in their hometown, posing as someone else.
Often, he would tell the police he was holding a family hostage, had napalm bombs or had killed someone in the house. He would demand a ransom, order a SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team — hence the term “swatting” — to show up with a police helicopter, or say he would kill any law enforcement official who intervened, Bauer said.
The teen, who went under the same social media user or name (or a variation of it), would also retaliate by posting a target’s parents’ dates of birth, and social insurance and credit card numbers on the web, and had pizza which they had not ordered delivered to their home.
Bauer spent more than an hour outlining the Arizona case, in which a young woman was forced to withdraw from her semester at the University of Arizona in Tucson because she became anxious after the teen relentlessly pursued and threatened her and her parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqHTVzTOH80
Man dudes under 18 commit to the most stupid internet based crimes, seeing that a good majority that get caught DDoSing other people happened to be around 14-17 as well as swatting.
Damn kids lol.
Manx
May 29, 2015, 6:04am
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Script kiddies that do this should be forced to go on SWAT calls for 6 months. No body armor.
Also, he should have swept his proxy for wards. Noob.
they were all WHITE too
huh @mechwarrier
Even SnoopDogg been had K-Pop crossover. #YJDK #REDvsBlueTechs.com
why this shit doesnt happen in SRK? oh yeah, no women
Oh God, Anita Sarkeesian’s probably creaming her granny panties right now.
Manx
May 29, 2015, 8:11am
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I wonder if the inmates will crack jokes about him getting his asshole swatted when they run a train on him.
