Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Suspect arrested in Kutcher-Bieber 'swatting' prank

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By Alan Duke, CNN

 This article, "Suspect arrested in Kutcher-Bieber 'swatting' prank," is about how someone, possibly a youth, called 911 reporting an emergency at actor Ashton Kutcher's house in Hollywood, California. Los Angeles police says that they've captured the person that they think  made the prank call. A California juvenile, who is not identified, is suspected of the prank calling on the October 3 swatting incident, who was also targeting Justin Bieber's home.The prank caller told 911 that there were about seven people shot in Kutcher's home and that there were men with guns and explosives.
"The comments of the call advised that there were individuals inside the location with guns and explosives, and that several people had been shot," police said.
Lots of cops and firefighters rushed to Kutcher's home after the report to find only Kutcher's workers and no emergency. Kutcher also rushed home after he found out. He was on the set of the sitcom "Two And A Half Men." 
"Hollywood division detectives worked with the FBI and police in Long Beach, California, to find the suspect, who was arrested on December 10," police said.
"swatting is when computer hackers utilize their skills to place false emergency calls of serious crimes in progress to law enforcement and fire dispatch centers, thus a large number of first responders to arrive," police said. "The swatting practice is extremely dangerous and places first responders and citizens in harm's way."
The District Attorney's Office in Los Angeles County is looking over the case trying to figure out how to prosecute the suspect.
police also said that. "other incidents that may be linked to the suspect have also been identified."

I don't think that they should prosecute the youth just yet. I think that they should wait a little while longer to gather up more information first. I do think that what the person did was very wrong and not exceptable at all and whoever did it should serve some time in jail. Serious pranks like this is not funny and it can lead to harm. I hope they find the person who really did it and stop this from happening again weither it is a celebrity's home or a normal person's home.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/18/showbiz/kutcher-swatting-arrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

1 comment:

  1. Like several of your posts, the 2nd section (where you talk about some of the details in the article) is too long, and mostly just cut and pasted from the article. Your 4th section, where you need to make a connection, an inference, or ask questions, is missing.

    Basically, you need to stop copying so much from the article and talk more about why this matters to you.

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