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Serial “swatter” behind 375 violent hoaxes targeted his own home to look like a victim
He now faces four years in federal prison.
On November 9, he called a local suicide prevention hotline in Skagit County and said he was going to "shoot up the school" and had an AR-15 for the purpose. In April, he called the local police department—twice—threatening school violence and demanding $1,000 in monero (a cryptocurrency) to make the threats stop. Filion made similar calls to Iowa high schools, businesses in Florida, religious institutions, historical black colleges and universities, private citizens, members of Congress, cabinet-level members of the executive branch, heads of multiple federal law enforcement agencies, at least one US senator, and "a former President of the United States."
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