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Blind Phone Hacker Gets 11-year Sentence

The teenager harassed a Verizon investigator who was building a case against him

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

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Last year, three other swatters, Stuart Rosoff, Jason Trowbridge and Chad Ward, were sentenced to five years in prison each. Martinez got a 30-month sentence.

Benton received an 18-month sentence on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Weigman, of Revere, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 135 months. Another codefendant in the case, Carlton Nalley, has pled guilty, but didn't show up for sentencing.

Last year, another swatter named Randall Ellis was sentenced to three years in prison for dispatching a SWAT team to an unsuspecting Orange County family. Authorities say Ellis made about 200 such calls.

Other stories by Robert McMillan

Copyright 2009 IDG News Service, International Data Group Inc. All rights reserved.

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