[HN Gopher] CA Teenager Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Nat...
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       CA Teenager Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Nationwide
       Swatting Spree
        
       Author : impish9208
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2025-02-11 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.justice.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.justice.gov)
        
       | elif wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
         | ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote:
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           | dang wrote:
           | Personal attacks will get you banned here, so please don't do
           | this.
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
         | dang wrote:
         | " _Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents._ "
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
       | ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote:
       | >he falsely identified himself as a senior federal law
       | enforcement officer, provided the federal law-enforcement
       | officer's residential address to the dispatcher
       | 
       | I would guess this one really put him on the map
       | 
       | Given the scope (375 total!) and the for-hire nature, it seems
       | like this kid got off easy. I'm not totally against it given his
       | age, but wow.
        
       | Nasrudith wrote:
       | As always: not to acquit the heinous perpetrator but I can't help
       | but think the bigger fundamental issue is that we maintain a tax-
       | payer funded dial-a-juiced-up-hitman service in the first place.
        
         | jokoon wrote:
         | My thought also
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         | Maybe there is a risk/benefit. Maybe spending more time trying
         | to make sure, would cost lives, or give criminals time to flee?
         | 
         | Hard to know...
        
       | potato3732842 wrote:
       | Moral of the story here really is that if you make the government
       | enforcers look like fools by abusing their "service" for they
       | will throw the book at you.
        
       | herewulf wrote:
       | Coincidentally I ran across and read this fantastic WIRED article
       | with a lot more detail today.
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       | https://archive.is/OgYmI
       | 
       | Curious that the posted article credits a bunch of law
       | enforcement departments but not the PI from the article.
        
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