An 18-year-old prankster known as "Little Hacker" who fooled police into responding to bogus emergencies pled guilty in federal court in Dallas on Thursday.
Matthew Weigman, of Revere, Mass., admitted to "swatting" victims in Fort Worth and Alvarado.
"Swatting" is a scheme by telephone hackers in which they take over another person's telephone number, call 911 and falsify an emergency, fooling police into sending officers to a bogus call.
Weigman has been in custody since the FBI arrested him in Boston in May 2008.
In federal court in Dallas Thursday, Weigman admitted that on June 12, 2006, he called police in Alvarado, saying he had shot and killed members of his family, was armed with an AK-47 and was holding hostages. He made the call appear to come from the house of an Alvarado resident he had met over a telephone "party line."
He made a similar call to Fort Worth police on Oct. 1, 2006, said James Jacks, the acting U.S. attorney in Dallas.
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