Online gamer, 22, sentenced to one year in prison for swatting
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A Connecticut man, 22, has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to participating in a series of hoax bomb threats to get SWAT teams deployed - a practice known as swatting.
Matthew Tollis of Wethersfield was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for participating in six swatting incidents in Connecticut and other states in 2014.
The incidents included fake emergency calls to Boston University, two high schools in New Jersey and a high school in Texas, authorities said.
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Matthew Tollis, 22, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, who was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for participating in six swatting incidents in Connecticut and other states last year
Authorities are pictured in 2014 at University of Connecticut's campus after police sent a bomb squad to deal with threats - that turned out to be a hoax - at the university's admissions building on April 3
In addition to his prison sentence, Tollis was given three years of supervised release and 300 hours of community service, according to The Verge.
Tollis was a member of a group of online gamers called Team Crucifix or Die which placed the hoax emergency to call to University of Connecticut's admissions department in April 2014, shutting down the school for three hours, according to federal prosecutors.
As part of the group - made up of mostly Xbox gamers from the U.S. and the United Kingdom who used Skype calls to plant bomb threats and intimidate government officials - Tollis 'identified potential institutions' for the group members to make the hoax bomb threats, according to the Justice Department.
The department also said he collected telephone numbers and other information about the targeted institutions, The Verge reported.
'Swatting is not a schoolboy prank, it's a federal crime,' US Attorney Deirdre Daly said in a statement regarding Tollis' sentence.
'It is our hope that this prosecution and the knowledge that this defendant will serve time in prison and live with a felony conviction for the remainder of his life will deter others from engaging in this immature, dangerous and criminal behavior.'
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The group Tollis belonged to was linked by investigators to the scare at UConn in 2014, which was cleared after no explosives were turned up (pictured)
Tollis was arrested on September 3 last year on charges related to a bomb threat called into the University of Connecticut on April 3 of the same year.
He pleaded guilty in June of this year to conspiring to engage in the malicious conveying of false information, according to NJ.com.
The Justice Department said it is teaming up with British authorities to investigate, since many of the group's members are in the United Kingdom.
This summer, it was revealed that the group changed its name to 'ISIS Gang' and is connected to hacker Julius Kivimaki, who was convicted this year after stealing credit card numbers from computer systems through malicious software, The Verge reported.
According to investigators, Tollis first started following two members of the group on Twitter after being harassed online, believing that following the two would prevent further abuse.
Investigators say the first swatting that Tollis participated in was a call to Hebron High School in Carrollton, Texas, in which the caller said a student was in possession of a firearm or bomb.
Nassau County police officers enter a home in Long Beach, N.Y., in search of an armed killer, based on a phone call that turned out to be a hoax
As Swat officers arrived at the high school, members of the group tweeted about the bomb threat, according to tweets cached and posted on bang script roblox 2021 pastebin, a plain text sharing site.
On Twitter, 'Declaws' took responsibility for the bomb threat and 'Inb4mad' posted a screenshot of the Skype call used to make it. The tweets have since been deleted and the account for 'Declaws' has been deactivated.
Tollis previously told the FBI that he also participated in bomb threats against two New Jersey high schools, UConn, Boston University and the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Photographs from the Hartford Courant show bomb technicians and heavily armed police responding to the threat at UConn.
The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Massachusetts was hosting an exhibition for gamers with attendance predicted to reach 60,000, when it received a bomb threat.
The caller identified himself as Matt Haag, an Iraqi national 'working for Allah' and said he had planted plastic explosives around the building the night before.
In one swatting, a 14-year-old paid a member of the group $30 through PayPal to call in a threat against a private residence in Willimantic, Connecticut.
Several nearby schools were locked down and a dozen officers responded to the scene, which only deescalated when residents inside spotted police and left the home to speak with them.
After another threat in Connecticut, the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office sent an administrative subpoena to Twitter asking for subscriber information on an account for eviljordie, which Twitter passed on to the user without advanced notice to law enforcement, according to the affidavit.
Using Skype, a caller phoned a paralegal from the District Attorney's Office listed on the subpoena, claiming he was 'ordering a hit man' on her.
Investigators say in August a member of the group called Sandy Hook Elementary, where a 2012 mass shooting claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 children, and said he was coming with an assault rifle to 'kill all your [expletive].'
Swatting captured headlines several years ago, when a series of celebrity homes were targeted in Los Angeles.
Police were so concerned about copycat crimes that they stopped releasing any public information when a hoax occurred.
Officers made at least one arrest, a juvenile who targeted Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher.
Read more:
Connecticut man gets year in prison for 'swatting' hoaxes | The Verge
Matthew Tollis of Wethersfield was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for participating in six swatting incidents in Connecticut and other states in 2014.
The incidents included fake emergency calls to Boston University, two high schools in New Jersey and a high school in Texas, authorities said.
Scroll down for video
Matthew Tollis, 22, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, who was sentenced on Tuesday to a year and a day in prison for participating in six swatting incidents in Connecticut and other states last year
Authorities are pictured in 2014 at University of Connecticut's campus after police sent a bomb squad to deal with threats - that turned out to be a hoax - at the university's admissions building on April 3
In addition to his prison sentence, Tollis was given three years of supervised release and 300 hours of community service, according to The Verge.
Tollis was a member of a group of online gamers called Team Crucifix or Die which placed the hoax emergency to call to University of Connecticut's admissions department in April 2014, shutting down the school for three hours, according to federal prosecutors.
As part of the group - made up of mostly Xbox gamers from the U.S. and the United Kingdom who used Skype calls to plant bomb threats and intimidate government officials - Tollis 'identified potential institutions' for the group members to make the hoax bomb threats, according to the Justice Department.
The department also said he collected telephone numbers and other information about the targeted institutions, The Verge reported.
'Swatting is not a schoolboy prank, it's a federal crime,' US Attorney Deirdre Daly said in a statement regarding Tollis' sentence.
'It is our hope that this prosecution and the knowledge that this defendant will serve time in prison and live with a felony conviction for the remainder of his life will deter others from engaging in this immature, dangerous and criminal behavior.'
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The group Tollis belonged to was linked by investigators to the scare at UConn in 2014, which was cleared after no explosives were turned up (pictured)
Tollis was arrested on September 3 last year on charges related to a bomb threat called into the University of Connecticut on April 3 of the same year.
He pleaded guilty in June of this year to conspiring to engage in the malicious conveying of false information, according to NJ.com.
The Justice Department said it is teaming up with British authorities to investigate, since many of the group's members are in the United Kingdom.
This summer, it was revealed that the group changed its name to 'ISIS Gang' and is connected to hacker Julius Kivimaki, who was convicted this year after stealing credit card numbers from computer systems through malicious software, The Verge reported.
According to investigators, Tollis first started following two members of the group on Twitter after being harassed online, believing that following the two would prevent further abuse.
Investigators say the first swatting that Tollis participated in was a call to Hebron High School in Carrollton, Texas, in which the caller said a student was in possession of a firearm or bomb.
Nassau County police officers enter a home in Long Beach, N.Y., in search of an armed killer, based on a phone call that turned out to be a hoax
As Swat officers arrived at the high school, members of the group tweeted about the bomb threat, according to tweets cached and posted on bang script roblox 2021 pastebin, a plain text sharing site.
On Twitter, 'Declaws' took responsibility for the bomb threat and 'Inb4mad' posted a screenshot of the Skype call used to make it. The tweets have since been deleted and the account for 'Declaws' has been deactivated.
Photographs from the Hartford Courant show bomb technicians and heavily armed police responding to the threat at UConn.
The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Massachusetts was hosting an exhibition for gamers with attendance predicted to reach 60,000, when it received a bomb threat.
The caller identified himself as Matt Haag, an Iraqi national 'working for Allah' and said he had planted plastic explosives around the building the night before.
In one swatting, a 14-year-old paid a member of the group $30 through PayPal to call in a threat against a private residence in Willimantic, Connecticut.
Several nearby schools were locked down and a dozen officers responded to the scene, which only deescalated when residents inside spotted police and left the home to speak with them.
After another threat in Connecticut, the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office sent an administrative subpoena to Twitter asking for subscriber information on an account for eviljordie, which Twitter passed on to the user without advanced notice to law enforcement, according to the affidavit.
Using Skype, a caller phoned a paralegal from the District Attorney's Office listed on the subpoena, claiming he was 'ordering a hit man' on her.
Investigators say in August a member of the group called Sandy Hook Elementary, where a 2012 mass shooting claimed the lives of 20 children and 6 children, and said he was coming with an assault rifle to 'kill all your [expletive].'
Swatting captured headlines several years ago, when a series of celebrity homes were targeted in Los Angeles.
Police were so concerned about copycat crimes that they stopped releasing any public information when a hoax occurred.
Officers made at least one arrest, a juvenile who targeted Justin Bieber and Ashton Kutcher.
Read more:
Connecticut man gets year in prison for 'swatting' hoaxes | The Verge
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