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Wales' First Swatting Conviction: Dare Gets 2-Year Sentence

7/15/2026

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Callum Dare, a 26-year-old from Talbot Green, was sentenced to two years and three months for hoax emergency calls in the US and United Kingdom, marking Wales’s first swatting conviction.
The FBI traced Dare, arrested him in October 2019, and seized devices containing phishing software for dark-web users.
South-Wales organized crime unit Tarian warned that swatting endangers the public and diverts emergency resources.
The FBI called swatting a reckless, deadly crime.

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Callum Dare, a 26-year-old from Talbot Green, was sentenced to two years and three months for hoax emergency calls in the US and United Kingdom, marking Wales’s first swatting conviction.
The FBI traced Dare, arrested him in October 2019, and seized devices containing phishing software for dark-web users.
South-Wales organized crime unit Tarian warned that swatting endangers the public and diverts emergency resources.
The FBI called swatting a reckless, deadly crime.