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Then, between Christmas and New Year, came a new flood. He hit nearly a hundred politicians and law enforcement officials in an unrelated campaign: US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly, Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Republican senator Rick Scott of Florida. One of the fake calls, court documents later say, caused a car accident that resulted in serious injuries.
But this time, the voice on the phone was not Torswats. Instead, according to US prosecutors, he ran the operation, providing the names, addresses, and phone numbers he wanted to do to a 21-year-old and a 26-year-old Serbian-Romanian who allegedly planned and carried out the operation. order and lines Torswats fed to them.
It was a familiar script. “I shot my wife in the head with my AR-15,” a man who identified himself as “James” said in one such call, pointing to the home of Georgia state senator John Albers. He told dispatchers that he caught his wife sleeping with another man and when he killed her, he caught the man. “I will release him for $10,000,” he added, threatening to detonate pipe bombs and blow up the building if his demands were not met.
Finally, Phillips calls Dennis and tells him that the FBI has a plan to arrest Torswats. And he needed Dennis’s help.
According to the plan, the agency will ask the suspect’s father to come to the police station to collect the computers they seized. While the father was there, Phillips explained, Dennis used his distraught ex-husband to start a new Telegram conversation with Torswats about his ex-wife. Then he has to wait long enough to save Torswats on his computer, log into his account – so the police can come in and arrest him. Dennis, despite suffering from Covid, agreed.
Instead, to his and the FBI’s surprise, Torswats accompanied his father to the police station to retrieve their equipment. The police arrested him quietly on the spot. As his enemies were he was finally arrestedDennis was too sick to be happy.
The FBI and Justice Department both declined WIRED’s request for comment, which included questions about why it took the FBI months after learning Torswats’ name — even after searching his home — to arrest him.
About two years into his investigation, Dennis learned the young man’s name: Alan Filion. He saw Filion’s photos for the first time and mentally replaced the image of Dshocker’s face with that of the real boy he was hunting. As Dshocker, Filion was great. She had long brown hair. In the photos, she wore a beautiful, innocent look.
At the time of his arrest, Filion was 17. When Dennis’ trial began, Filion was only 15.
Filion fits the profile of many online disobedience. He, like Dennis, seemed to have grown up on the Internet, finding people in niche forums rather than the world. His high school years were defined by the isolation of an epidemic of isolation. According to Lancaster’s Antelope Valley community college, Filion began pursuing a math degree in the fall of 2022 after graduating high school early. But a professor from Antelope Valley didn’t remember him at all. Someone who knew him said he was quiet and “retired,” with few friends.
A person claiming to be a friend of Filion said that he was part of a group that wanted to incite ethnic violence and that he was looking for money “to buy weapons and shoot people.” An anonymous tip, which was sent to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center and obtained by WIRED, says the person behind the Torswats account was involved in a Nazi cult known as the Order of Nine Angles. The tipster said he believes Torswats’ actions are contributing to “the end of days” and “bleeding and man-hours into the system.”
