re: Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks

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Is he tied to any of the incidents where someone actually died? If so he could get murder or manslaughter since he was committing a crime which resulted in someone’s death.

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100% this gets plead down. I doubt any prosecutor wants to try to explain the intricacies of swatting to a jury box of blue hairs and wants to try to definitively tie this individual to an account that apparently is still active while he is incarcerated. Add to that the kid is 17 and likely doesn't have the resources to mount a good defense and you get a negotiated guilty plea with less than a year served and a long period of supervised probation.