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11 year old boy arrested for s(...) 07/26/24(Fri)08:47:42 No.475721875

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11 year old boy arrested for school bomb threats and swatting Anonymous (ID: 8nPfrAVA) 07/26/24(Fri)08:47:42 No.475721875

Authorities arrested an 11-year-old boy from Henrico, Virginia, and charged him with 43 felonies in connection with a series of swatting calls the boy allegedly placed to Flagler County schools last year, as well as to the Maryland State House.

The boy admitted to making all the threats made in Flagler County as well as others. The calls began on May 14 and were repeated for a week and a half until the end of the school year. The calls included threats to “kill everybody at Buddy Taylor” and “shoot everyone in the fucking head.” The caller, giving a fake name, later claimed to have planted pipe bombs at Buddy Taylor.

Flagler County Sheriff’s Detective First Class Joseph O’Barr of the agency’s Homeland Security Section traced the calls to a house in Henrico, Va., from a Lakeside Avenue apartment, where the detective, with Virginia police, interviewed the suspect.

“What we learned was frankly shocking and alarming,” Staly said, describing the investigation that resulted in the arrest. The investigation included interviews with the boy, his mother and his brother. According to his mother, the boy had become consumed with the internet during the pandemic. The boy’s brother described him as “weird” and told authorities there was “something wrong with him.” He had a “dark sense of humor,” and a “dark side” that included attraction to animal and human cruelty.

He said he was “interested in very violent materials” he could find online, including snuff videos of humans and cats. He admitted to other acts that included sexual extortion–the threatened distribution of compromising pictures of others in exchange for money or favors–and making swatting calls on behalf of others. Staly saw the case as a warning call to courts and the juvenile justice system to note the boy’s escalations, had the Sheriff’s Office not intervened.

https://flaglerlive.com/11-year-old-swatting/