The illegal practice of swatting has been with us for a while now, unfortunately. As most of you likely know, swatting is when someone pretends to call the police from that target’s home and reports a shooting or hostage situation, hoping that the cops will show up and kill the target for them. The practice has become increasingly common in recent years. Unfortunately, we rarely hear about anyone being arrested for it. An exception to that rule turned up this week, however. A 17-year-old from California was arrested and accused of hundreds of incidents of swatting around the country. Alan Winston Filion was taken into custody and extradited to Florida to face charges of swatting a mosque. So how did the FBI manage to find this guy? (NBC News)
A California teenager who is allegedly behind a flurry of swatting incidents across the country targeting schools and the homes of FBI…
