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California teen sentenced to 4 years in prison for making hundreds of ‘swatting’ calls across the US

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

He targeted religious institutions, high schools, colleges and universities, government officials.

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

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