'Cyber terrorist' who reported fake 911 calls across US and Canada sentenced to prison
'Cyber terrorist' who reported fake 911 calls across US and Canada sentenced to prison
Garcia admitted he used an online phone service to call in fake emergencies to agencies in the United States and Canada.
That headline, though. He made fake 911 calls. Or he made false reports in 911 calls.
If you report fake 911 calls, you're helping police to catch the swatter.
Probably AI generated.
Wait, I don't understand the difference.
Either he called 911 reporting events that did not happen or he reported others' 911 calls as false.
If you call yourself a cyber-terrorist you should be ransomwaring banks, not swatting normal people
“The caller laughed and taunted officers, stating that he was hiding under multiple VPNs (virtual private networks),”
“Like pouring salt in the wound, you left a voicemail for our chief of police directing him to an online post where you gloated about the event. You wasted countless hours when our patrol officers could have responded to emergencies. I traveled 2400 miles to tell you this in person. I told you that you would be held accountable,” Grispino said during the hearing.
Power move
That'd make a good movie scene.
Listening to the audio, he knew exactly what he was doing and took absolute glee in being a "cyber terrorist". This wasn't some random mischief, he was a serious prick who deserves the prison time.
*Should be supervision for the rest of his life. Psychopath like this, there's a good chance he will try swatting or hacking whoever prosecuted him.
With a face like that, he'll be getting a serious prick during prison time, too.
“To know that I caused so much pain and irreversible damage to someone for no reason other than petty reasons. It’s disheartening to me, to my family,” Garcia said in court. Garcia said he had an online persona that disconnected him from reality.
He's really sorry though, he had no idea UwU
Swatting should be treated as attempted murder. If a person dies in the altercation, then premeditated murder.
Swatting should be considered a failure of law enforcement.
If a police department gets tricked into Swatting an innocent party due to a fraudulent call to 911, the entire department should be disbanded and replaced with officers who do due diligence before busting people's doors down. If anyone dies, the officer who signed off on the raid gets charged with murder.
I believe US law punishes the person committing a crime if the police kills someone intervening to said crime.
But never the cops.
Guy looks like he's 15.
he was 19 at the time he was making these calls, so youre not far off
I wonder if that pic was from then or from now.
Indeed. I felt bad for him at first, but he put many lives at risk with the swatting innocent people.
“The caller laughed and taunted officers, stating that he was hiding under multiple VPNs (virtual private networks),”
I'll bet a $50 he either had exactly 1, or even none at all.
He totally fell for all that NordVPN marketing
Gotta take that 1 GB connection down to 28.8 kb/s
Big numbers are better, so 19340ms RTT and 98% packet loss are good, right?
Or TOR?
Garcia admitted he used an online phone service to call in fake emergencies to agencies in the United States and Canada while live streaming the calls on Discord in 2022.
You know what you should never do? Broadcast your crimes. But I'm also very glad that stupid criminals facilitate their own downfall. That's pretty great.
Ashton Connor Garcia, 21, of Bremerton, pleaded guilty to federal charges of extortion and threats for which he will spend three years in federal custody, followed by a term of three years of federal supervision.
Ashton Connor Garcia, 21, of Bremerton, pleaded guilty to federal charges of extortion and threats for which he will spend three years in federal custody, followed by a term of three years of federal supervision.
Way too short of jail time for this behavior:
"“Garcia often made several hoax calls per week and sometimes multiple calls in a single day. He treated swatting like a form of entertainment in which he was the star performer. He set up internet chatrooms devoted to swatting, and he invited people to come watch his swatting calls as if it were a premier sporting event,” Manca wrote."
followed by a term of 50 years of shit jobs and poverty due to how American society works
What an idiot! 21! He basically waited for the worst time in his life to make it much much worse.
Looks like a kid, but fuck swatting