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Tyler Barriss, the swatter whose exploits I detailed in the November issue of @WIRED, just got hit with a vast new array of federal charges--this time in the Central District of California. wired.com/story/feds-hit…
The seven oldest charges date back to the fall of 2015. They all involve bomb threats made to high schools and colleges that Barriss' online "Halo" friends attended. 
In some of his later bomb threats, made while he was living in a Los Angeles homeless shelter, Barriss allegedly claimed to be a member of ISIS.
A bit strangely, one of the charges involves an unindicted co-conspirator who used a stolen credit card to buy a NASA hat for Barriss.
People who allegedly tried to hire Barriss to carry out swattings offered him payment in Bitcoin as well as Xboxes.
But as Barriss told me, he only demanded $10 per swat.
Barriss allegedly evacuated Harvard in September 2017.
And in case you missed it, here's the main story that went live on Tuesday--just 24 hours before the new federal charges dropped. wired.com/story/swatting…
