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For 18 months, a teenager allegedly operated a \u201cswatting\u201d service out of his father\u2019s California home, where criminals could call in a hoax bomb threat or mass shooting almost as easily as ordering a burger on UberEats.\nAlan Winston Filion, 17, is suspected of targeting hundreds of high schools, mosques, historically Black churches, US senators and even the US Supreme Court with swatting attacks that placed thousands of people in the crosshairs of heavily armed police response teams.\nProsecutors say the 6ft 3in teenager advertised his services under the pseudonym Torswats on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, charging as little as $40 to get someone\u2019s gas shut off, $50 for a \u201cmajor police response\u201d, and $75 for a \u201cbomb threat/mass shooting threat\u201d.\nMr Filion would then post chilling audio of the 911 calls on Telegram as a proof of purchase, according to court documents.\nAmong the hundreds of \u201cswats\u201d that Torswats allegedly claimed credit for were multiple hoax callouts at the home of Patrick S Tomlinson, a Milwaukee-based science fiction author who says he has been swatted dozens of times in the past four years as part of a targeted harassment campaign by a group of \u201csociopathic\u201d stalkers. hkh\n\nCheck out Barstool Sports for more: http://www.barstoolsports.com\n\nFollow Zero Blog Thirty here:\nFacebook: https://facebook.com/zeroblog30/\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/zeroblog30\nInstagram: http://instagram.com/zeroblog30

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