New York State Man Sentenced for “Swatting”

Swatting is the act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident, according to Wikipedia. 

Now a New York state man knows that swatting is no laughing matter.

CBS 6 reports that 19 year-old Jack Lindsay was sentenced to 6 months in prison and 5 years for swatting a Watervliet, NY family as and for his involvement in calling in a threat to Watervliet High School.

The Coloine, NY man plead guilty in October 2015 to one count of falsely reporting an incident in the second degree.

Police say that Lindsay reported a bomb threat at a neighbors home in April, 2014. Lindsay's actions resulted in a family being taken out of their home at gunpoint by a Coloine SWAT team.

Lindsay apparently wanted to use the incident as a test for an even bigger plan later that month. Police say Lindsay then had an accomplice call in a bomb threat at Watervliet High School.

The reason? Lindsay needed extra time to complete a class project, according to officials.