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California teen pleads guilty in Florida to making hundreds of ’swatting’ calls across the U.S.

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Alan W. Filion , 18 , pleaded guilty to four counts of making interstate threats to injure the person of another.

He faces up to five years in prison on each count.

Swatting is the practice of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a particular address.

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