Apollo posted earlier about a kid who, after making bomb threats, went to prison several hundred miles from home because of the Patriot act. There’s been some follow up (H/T) and it looks as though things are more complicated:
[A] new report by Wired News suggests that, not only was the teenager an online superstar in rogue tech communities for his prank phone calls, but his mother may have known all along that the boy was conspiring with others to make bomb threats.
Lundeby, known online as “Tyrone,” allegedly had progressed into selling his services as a threatmaker, charging schoolchildren from across the country $5 apiece to place threatening, Internet-based phone calls that would cause administrators to shut down their schools, Wired News reports.
“I heard the prank phone calls he made,” his mother, Annette Lundeby, said in the Wired report. “They were really funny prank calls.”
On top of that, the U.S. Attorney’s office handling the case says her story about abuse of the Patriot Act was false.
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“Tyrone” allegedly moved on to bigger things, according to Wired News, which says he began calling in bomb threats and pretty soon was being paid for them via a PayPal account.
Moving the teen from North Carolina to Indiana might be a bit much, but it sounds as though the mother has a few screws loose: thinking prank bomb threats are funny and then claiming that the U.S. Attorney’s office was using the Patriot Act to prosecute her son? If her son was getting paid to make bomb threats, then there’s good reason for the federal government to get involved—how does anyone know, say, that it’s only other kids paying him to shut down the school and not someone more sinister?—and the mother might well be charged as an accomplice.
Posted by Hubbard in Buffoon Watch, The Law Is An Ass--An Idiot