Overseas swatting scheme wreaked ‘massive havoc’ in US, with fake bomb threats, kidnappings and plot to kill the president

US authorities have arrested one of the two foreign nationals who allegedly made hundreds of fake bomb threats, ransom demands, and threats to officials in the US, wreaking havoc for the victims as well as local and federal authorities who responded to the calls and messages.

For two Eastern Europeans, swatting the political establishment in the United States over the past few years was pure scripted entertainment. Lawmakers, election supervisors and “libtard zoomers” were all targets of a conspiracy including Nemanja Radovanovic, from Serbia, and Thomasz Szabo, from Romania, US prosecutors allege. The two allegedly made hundreds of fake bomb threats, ransom demands and threats to officials in the US, wreaking havoc for the victims as well as for local and federal authorities who responded to the calls and messages. The two individuals did all that with a simple internet connection from across the Atlantic, investigators say. In an interview with Secret Service investigators before charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and for making interstate threats were brought, Radovanovic admitted to making swatting calls, according to court documents, and detailed the scripts they would use. “Like, ‘I killed my wife … And I want $10,000 or I’ll kill the man she was cheating on me with,’” Radovanovic said of the scripts. He added that he would demand the money in a briefcase and said the type of weapon he threatened to use was a “15- something. R-15 something.” Szabo is currently in the custody of the US Marshals, and Radovanovic remains at large. The two men are connected to 500 of the swatting calls to at least 250 police departments authorities about fake threats or emergencies, a US official familiar with the investigation told CNN, attempting to create “massive havoc” for entertainment.