A single swatter allegedly placed more than 20 bogus police calls in 11 states and Canada in a little under four months.
Ashton Garcia was swatting people in eight different states, sometimes demanding money, crypto, credit card information, and even “sexual photographs.” In these calls, Garcia was allegedly placing calls to cops using spoofed phone numbers while using false names. In some cases, he told police he had placed explosives in some locations or otherwise accused different people of various crimes like murder or kidnapping.
ia allegedly threatened to leak nude photos of a minor under the age of 18 and swat them if they didn’t provide credit card info. Feds said Garcia broadcasted these swatting calls on Discord, treating it like a livestream where community members could comment or “pretended to be victims or perpetrators” of the fake crimes. Garcia allegedly placed these calls in June through September last year to people in states across the country and beyond, including California, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, and Edmonton in Alberta, Canada.
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