Michael Anthony Nohl, 20, of Oaks, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to charges from a ‘swatting’ incident that targeted a law enforcement officer and the officer’s family in a Philadelphia courtroom yesterday.
According to authorities, Nohl was involved in a phone call to the home of the officer on December 22, 2014, in which the officer’s wife and daughter were threatened with kidnapping and murder, and the officer was threatened with assault and killing.
The term ‘swatting’ is generally defined as the act of deceiving an emergency service, such as 911 or other emergency services dispatcher, into dispatching emergency response units, including police SWAT teams, fire departments and medical personnel, based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident.
The charges against Nohl include using a telephone or other instruments of interstate or foreign commerce to threaten the use of an explosive to kill, injure, or intimidate an individual, and transmitting any communication containing any threat to injure a person.
Nohl faces a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, a possible fine, up to three years of supervised release, and a $200 special assessment.
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney José Arteaga. U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois scheduled a sentencing hearing for June 9, 2016.
The defendant, Michael Anthony Nohl, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 9, 2016. His exact sentence has yet to be determined.
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Key Facts
- State: Pennsylvania
- Category: Violent Crime
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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