11-09-2019 23:37 via pittsburgh.cbslocal.com

Fayette County Man Pleads Guilty To Making Hoax Emergency Calls

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A man from Dunbar, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of interstate threats.Nicholas Huffine, 20-years-old, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate threats where he engaged in a practice known as “swatting.”This is a prank in which Huffine along with others made false emergency calls to the Winter Garden Police Department in Florida. Huffine and others claimed an ongoing, dangerous crime was in progress in order to send an armed polic
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