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Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes NBC News:
The California man behind a years-long string of hoax 911 calls -- including one that ended in a Kansas man's death -- wants to plead guilty to all charges, court documents revealed. Tyler Rai Barriss, 25, intends to waive his right to trial and admit guilt to a 46-count federal indictment, according to a document he signed on Oct. 18 and was filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday. Barriss faces up to life behind bars for his dozens of acts of "swatting" -- calling police to falsely report a serious crime, in hopes of drawing a massive response to the home of an unsuspecting target.... According to the court records, Barriss will admit to dozens of "swatting" incidents all over America between 2015 and the end of 2017, The false alarms connected to Barriss happened in Ohio, Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Massachusetts, MIssouri, Maine, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Indiana, Michigan, Florida, Connecticut and New York.
Barriss performed SWATs if clients sent him $10 over PayPal -- occasionally demanding "upwards of $50," according to a new (possibly pay-walled) article on Wired. A Call of Duty player hired Barriss to SWAT a teammate who'd caused them to lose a $1.50 wager, but his intended target supplied a false address across town which resulted in the fatal police shooting.
Both gamers are now "awaiting trial on lesser charges," reports NBC.
Barriss performed SWATs if clients sent him $10 over PayPal -- occasionally demanding "upwards of $50," according to a new (possibly pay-walled) article on Wired. A Call of Duty player hired Barriss to SWAT a teammate who'd caused them to lose a $1.50 wager, but his intended target supplied a false address across town which resulted in the fatal police shooting.
Both gamers are now "awaiting trial on lesser charges," reports NBC.
I usually don't wish anyone anything ill, but I do want to see you in this situation, where you're sitting in the peace of your living room and suddenly all hell breaks loose, sirens blaring, people screaming at you through megaphones... and then I want to see you keep your cool and be all considerate and collected.
People react not very rationally in high stress situations. You might have noticed that. Maybe being raided and having a swat team kick down your door is your daily routine, I don't know, but to most of us, it's not. It's a very unusual, very stressful situation that few of us have ever and hopefully will ever go through.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.