California teen just pled guilty in Florida to committing these disgusting crimes across the country

America’s youth are in turmoil.

Crimes committed by the nation’s teenagers are on the rise and becoming ever more dangerous.

And one California teen just pled guilty in Florida to committing these disgusting crimes across the country.

A Lancaster, California teenager has pleaded guilty in Florida to four counts of making interstate threats to injure another person.

But his crime spree is far worse than that

Alan Filion now faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison on each count. 

A sentencing date has not yet been set.

But it turns out that is just the tip of the iceberg.

He is also accused of making hundreds of false bomb threats, mass shooting threats, and “swatting” calls across the country.

Swatting is the criminal act of deceiving an emergency service, like a dispatcher, into sending a police or emergency response team to another person’s address.

“For well over a year, Alan Filion targeted religious institutions, schools, government officials, and other innocent victims with hundreds of false threats of imminent mass shootings, bombings and other violent crimes. He caused profound fear and chaos and will now face the consequences of his actions,” U.S. Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement.

Filion’s alleged crime spree began in 2022.

From August 2022 through January 2024, Filion, who was 16 at the time, made more than 375 swatting and threat calls.

These calls included making claims to have planted bombs or threatening to detonate bombs.

They also included threats of multiple mass shootings.

Filion threatened high schools, colleges and universities, government officials, and even religious institutions.

“Alan Filion not only intended to cause as much harm as possible, but he also attempted to profit from these criminal activities by offering swatting-for-a-fee services,” said FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate. 

“Swatting poses severe danger to first responders and victims, wastes significant time and resources, and creates fear in communities.”

Turning swatting into a business

According to court documents, Filion, in a January 19 post, said that his “first” swatting was like “2 to 3 years ago.” 

He went on to say that “6-9 months ago [he] decided to turn it into a business. . .” 

On multiple occasions, Filion reportedly posted on social media advertising his services and his swatting-for-a-fee structure.

Then, last January, Filion was arrested in California on Florida state charges stemming from a May 2023 threat he made to a religious institution in Sanford, FL. 

In that threat, he allegedly claimed to have a Glock 17 pistol, an illegally modified AR-15, pipe bombs, and Molotov cocktails. 

He warned that he was going to “commit a mass shooting” and “kill everyone” he saw, according to court documents.

On November 13, Filion pleaded guilty in federal court to making that threat.

Filion also pleaded guilty to making three other threatening calls.

An October 2022 call to a public high school in the Western District of Washington.

A May 2023 call to a Historically Black College & University in the Northern District of Florida.

And a July 2023 call to a local police department in the Western District of Texas. 

According to court documents, in that Texas call, he falsely claimed to be a law enforcement officer and claimed he had killed his mother. 

He then reportedly gave the police dispatcher a real officer’s home address and threatened to kill any police officers who showed up to take him into custody.

There is no telling how many more such crimes the troubled teen has committed, or just how long he will end up in prison.