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You'd be surprised. Someone swatted my neighbor, and they actually made an arrest. I don't know if they will have enough evidence to convict, but it was good to see. It was traumatizing for my neighbor. She's an 80 year old woman who lives with her son. I would assume the guy who did it did so from a spoofed number, but they still managed to track someone down.
I have no idea why they were even targeted, and neither did they. My money was on someone trying to swat a different neighbor who I always hear loudly talking shit while gaming. He's always yelling loud enough that I can hear it next door. My thought is they were after him and they just screwed up the address and hit the house next door.
Hmm, that's interesting. I was under the belief that when they do arrest swatters, they are the dumbest and least sophisticated swatters who aren't really trying to cover their tracks.
It's definitely possible. There wasn't anything about it in the article. I had just assumed he was spoofing the number because like I feel like that's the 1st thing that you should do to avoid traceability, and the guy has apparently done it multiple times.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/south-bay-man-arrested-string-swatting-calls/3318438/