09-05-2025
Man sentenced for ‘Swatting' call that led to Kansas City IRS lockdown
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 46-year-old Kansas City, Missouri man was sentenced in federal court for making a hoax telephone call that led to an Internal Revenue Service office being locked down and an employee being detained.
Anthony M. Alford was sentenced on Wednesday, May 7, to three years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Alford to serve supervised release for three years following his incarceration.
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Alford to one count of intentionally conveying false and misleading information.
Court records show that on Sept. 10, 2024, Alford falsely reported the threat to 911. KCPD officers were dispatched and detained an employee at the IRS office on Pershing Road. The B-wing of the IRS building was then sent into lockdown.
The person who was detained, identified in court records as 'Victim 1', claimed she had been dating Alford for about a month and had been trying to break up with him. While she said that Alford had never been violent, she did say that he acted 'controlling possessive and jealous behavior', according to records.
Those court records also show that Alford messaged Victim 1 saying he was ' [o]n the phone with IRS police have fun when you get there,' and '…just wait until you get to work.'
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Alford was arrested on September 25, 2024, when he said that Victim 1 did not make those threats and that he had been drinking when he made the 911 call.
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