Posts Tagged ‘Swatting’
DSP Investigating Hoax Calls Regarding Threat of School Shooter
Georgetown Man Sentenced For “Swatting”
A Georgetown man has received a prison sentence of 37 months for his guilty plea in a “swatting” investigation that prosecutors said involved false reports to police departments and emergency dispatch centers in several states. 30-year-old Rodney Phipps pled guilty in January to five counts of making interstate threats and one count of making a…
Read MoreNew Mexico Man Pleads Guilty to “Swatting” Incidents in Georgetown
A New Mexico has pleaded guilty before US District Judge for the District of Delaware, Richard Andrews, to making interstate bomb threats. 聽In May of 2018, 29 year old Stephen Landes of Roswell, New Mexico posed as someone else who lives in Georgetown when he made bomb threats against the Georgetown Walmart and Georgetown Elementary…
Read MoreGeorgetown Man Indicted for Hoax Emergency Calls
The U.S. Attorney’s Office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Georgetown, Delaware man for the illegal practice of swatting, in which an individual makes hoax emergency calls in order to elicit an armed police response for the purpose of harassing someone believed to be at the location of the fake emergency. Officials say…
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