Prolific swatter and bomb hoaxer who broke up FCC's net neutrality vote pleads guilty

Prolific swatter and bomb hoaxer who broke up FCC's net neutrality vote pleads guilty

It was a dramatic moment during the FCC's net neutrality proceedings last December when the Commission's public meeting was abruptly evacuated and bomb squads moved in — all while thousands watched on the live stream. The person who called in that threat has just entered a guilty plea to that and numerous other crimes, including a SWAT hoax that killed a man last December. Tyler Barriss is a California (not Kansas, as I wrote earlier; the fatal shooting took place in Kansas) resident who has racked up dozens of charges of swatting, calling in bomb threats and other "pranks" that have proven to be anything but.