An 11-year-Virginia boy is charged in Florida with calling in more than 20 bomb or shooting threats to schools and other places, authorities said Thursday.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said during a news conference that authorities worked hard to find the caller before the school year resumes
School vouchers were supposed to save taxpayer money. Instead they blew a massive hole in Arizona's budgetSwatting is slang for making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to send a SWAT team or other armed police officers to a particular place. Investigators tracked the calls to a home in Henrico County, Virginia, just outside Richmond. Local deputies searched the home this month, and the 11-year-old boy who lived there admitted to placing the Florida swatting calls, as well as a threat made to the Maryland State House, authorities said. Investigators later determined that the boy also made swatting calls in Nebraska, Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee and Alaska.
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