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His criminal charge specifically relates to hoax calls sending police scrambling to intervene in faked incidents in Virginia involving a U.S. Cabinet official, a university, a Baptist church and — at the request of Denton — ProPublica, a New York-based newsroom, and one of its journalists who revealed Denton’s identity and role in Atomwaffen, the Federal Bureau of Investigation alleges.

According to a sworn affidavit in support of the charges, prepared by an FBI agent in the agency’s Cyber Crime Squad, additional swatting calls were traced to the group, including calls to 11 different police agencies in Canada.

The conspirators conducted hundreds of swatting calls across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

“The conspirators conducted hundreds of swatting calls across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom,” the affidavit claims.

The affidavit does not say what the specific calls to Canadian police agencies were, who their third-party victims were meant to be or whether the calls prompted the desired response. Most were made in late 2018.

Several of the police agencies involved were not able to fill in any of those blanks prior to deadline when contacted.

Two of the conspirators who did the speaking on most of the hoax calls are described as foreign nationals not living in the United States. It is not publicly known if they are Canadians, although there are several references to Canadian affairs in the conspirators’ chat logs. The FBI said the investigation is ongoing.

One of them mentioned former Toronto mayor Rob Ford in 2018, typing the message: “Rob Ford crack video released” and sending a link to a CBC video from 2016.