{"id":30150,"date":"2015-02-09T07:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30150"},"modified":"2017-04-15T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T17:41:57","slug":"accused-swatter-arrested-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/09\/accused-swatter-arrested-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused &#8220;SWATter&#8221; arrested in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/7\/71\/350553\/las-vegas-man-arrested-naperville-swatting-incident\" target=\"_blank\">LeeAnn Shelton<\/a> reports on an arrest in Las Vegas for computer-related crimes and (effectively) attempted murder by falsely reporting a serious crime at another address to get the SWAT team to raid that location.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A gamer known online as \u201cFamed God\u201d \u2014 who made up a murder to get police to go to an unsuspecting west suburban resident\u2019s home last year \u2014 is behind bars in Nevada awaiting extradition.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Willson, 19, was arrested Thursday after authorities searched his home in the 4600 block of El Presidente Drive in Las Vegas, a statement from the Will County state\u2019s attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Willson used a computer to contact Naperville\u2019s 911 center on July 10, 2014, and claimed a murder had happened at a home in the city, prosecutors claim. Naperville\u2019s Special Response Team responded but found no crime.<\/p>\n<p>The practice involves someone falsely reporting a dangerous situation to send police to another person\u2019s home. It is known as \u201cswatting\u201d because the hoax calls can lead to deployment of SWAT teams.<\/p>\n<p>Calling it a \u201cdangerous prank,\u201d State\u2019s Attorney James Glasgow plans to craft legislation that would make swatting a felony in Illinois, the statement said. The bill would also require anyone convicted of swatting to reimburse municipalities for the cost of the emergency response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Chicago Sun-Times, LeeAnn Shelton reports on an arrest in Las Vegas for computer-related crimes and (effectively) attempted murder by falsely reporting a serious crime at another address to get the SWAT team to raid that location. A gamer known online as \u201cFamed God\u201d \u2014 who made up a murder to get police to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,13],"tags":[343,658,760,725,98],"class_list":["post-30150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-law","category-usa","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-illinois","tag-lasvegas","tag-militarization","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Qi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30151,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30150\/revisions\/30151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}