{"id":62308,"date":"2015-10-14T08:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62308"},"modified":"2015-10-14T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T13:25:50","slug":"swatting-gets-a-year-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62308","title":{"rendered":"SWATTING gets doofus a year in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/man-gets-prison-swatting-020658786.html\">Complex<\/a> reports that 22-year-old Matthew Tollis earned himself a year in jail for several SWATTING episodes. SWATTING is the practice of calling the police to report an emergency that would require the police to roll up on a target with SWAT teams or another extreme reaction. I only know of one member of TAH who was SWATTED &#8211; someone, you can speculate who, called the police and said that this member was suicidal and had a gun. Luckily, the police were in possession of their complete faculties and didn&#8217;t go all SWAT on that TAH member. But back to young Matthew;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This summer, Matthew Tollis pled guilty to faking a bomb threat as part of a group known as &#8220;Team Crucifix or Die&#8221; or TCOD. According to the Department of Justice, Tollis was involved in six fake emergency calls in 2014, including one that shut down the University of Connecticut for three hours as police searched for explosives. Last week, a judge sentenced him to 12 months and one day in prison, plus three years of supervised release and 300 hours of community service.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney Deirdre Daly released a statement regarding Tollis\u2019 sentence: &#8220;Swatting is not a schoolboy prank, it\u2019s a federal crime. It is our hope that this prosecution and the knowledge that this defendant will serve time in prison and live with a felony conviction for the remainder of his life will deter others from engaging in this immature, dangerous and criminal behavior.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the article points out, SWATTING is usually targeted towards individuals&#8217; homes making the practice more dangerous. If I have been SWATTED, I&#8217;m not aware of it, but then I&#8217;ve told the local State Police and Sheriff about our members&#8217; experience with his own police force. I do, however, know of other telephonic pranks that plague our friends, and that noose is tightening on the responsible persons. It&#8217;s good to see prosecutors getting serious about it, too, but a year and a day seems a little light to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex reports that 22-year-old Matthew Tollis earned himself a year in jail for several SWATTING episodes. &hellip; <a title=\"SWATTING gets doofus a year in jail\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62308\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SWATTING gets doofus a year in jail<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}