ANACORTES, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – A California teenager who made over 300 false threats across the country, including to a high school in Skagit County, was sentenced in federal court today.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that 18-year-old Alan Filion will spend four years in prison for making interstate threats to injure people. According to the plea agreement, Filion made over 375 swatting and threat calls between August 2022 and January 2024.

The calls included one to Anacortes High School in October 2022 where he threatened to carry out a mass shooting and claimed to have planted bombs throughout the school.

His other targets included religious institutions, colleges, universities, government officials and numerous individuals across the U.S.

Filion was arrested in January 2024 after threatening a religious center in Florida.

The Anacortes Police Department provided assistance to the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service in investigating the case.