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Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 30 Months for Making Hoax Emergency Services Calls

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 29, 2013. A Massachusetts man was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison today for engaging in an illegal practice known as “swatting,” in which he made hoax emergency telephone calls reporting an ongoing, dangerous crime to elicit an armed police response from a SWAT team to a specific location, typically in order to harass someone he believed was at the location.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal…

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