The Kansas fatal SWATting incident? Three others charged in connection to Tyler Barris.

[thewayne]

From the article: "The U.S. Justice Department has filed criminal charges against three U.S. men accused of swatting, or making hoax reports of bomb threats or murders in a bid to trigger a heavily armed police response to a target’s address. Investigators say the men, aged 19 to 23, all carried out the attacks with the help of Tyler Barriss, a convicted serial swatter whose last stunt in late 2018 cost a Kansas man his life.

FBI agents on Wednesday arrested Neal Patel, 23, of Des Plaines, Ill. and Tyler Stewart, 19 of Gulf Breeze, Fla. The third defendant, Logan Patten, 19, of Greenwood, Mo., agreed to turn himself in. The men are charged in three separate indictments with conspiracy and conveying false information about the use of explosive devices."

Tyler Barris was very well-known, and I expect there's a lot of people around the country who are deleting their social media accounts and reformatting their computers right now. And that won't help them, enough evidence to convict them has already been gathered. I expect some more arrests.

There's a quote that I wish I could find, unfortunately Google has been tainted by Percy Jackson and the Olympians, so I can't find it right now. It's something along the lines of "Zeus is slow to look in his book, but he DOES look."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/01/three-charged-for-working-with-serial-swatter/

For those not familiar with this incident, take a loot at my SWATting tag and the previous posts on this incident.

Comments

[silveradept]

Oh, good. Maybe if the consequences are strong enough and far-ranging enough, it will finally get through someone's head that calling the SWAT is a terrible idea and should be discouraged.