{"id":83605,"date":"2026-06-03T07:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83605"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:37:17","slug":"gta-5-actor-ned-luke-celebrates-as-swatting-perpetrator-sentenced-to-4-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83605","title":{"rendered":"GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Celebrates as Swatting Perpetrator Sentenced to 4 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/grand-theft-auto-v\">Grand Theft Auto 5<\/a> actor Ned Luke has celebrated the sentencing of an online swatter who will now serve four years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Luke, who played Michael De Santa in Rockstar&#8217;s blockbuster, regularly streams himself playing GTA Online \u2014 and has fallen victim to swatting attempts numerous times. <\/p>\n<p>The practice of hoax calling the police to turn up at a streamer&#8217;s address while they&#8217;re on camera \u2014 usually with a claim of violence to provoke an armed response \u2014 has sadly become prevelant, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/actor-who-played-michael-in-gta-5-swatted-while-streaming-defends-rockstar-despite-fan-outcry\">evidence exists<\/a> of Luke being swatted on at least four occaisons following a leak of his personal address.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"every-celebrity-in-gta-5-and-gta-online\" data-value=\"every-celebrity-in-gta-5-and-gta-online\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Now, however, progress has clearly been made in catching those responsible. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ned_luke\/status\/2061812221261574418\">post<\/a> on X\/Twitter, Luke shared a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice confirming that at least one perpetrator had now been sentenced \u2014 to &#8220;incarceration of four years followed by supervised release of three years,&#8221; plus a $200 fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t drop the soap in the shower douchebag,&#8221; Luke commented. &#8220;Won&#8217;t be swatting anyone anytime soon&#8230; and they&#8217;re coming for the ones he ratted out as well.&#8221; He signed off his post with five star emoji, a nod to GTA&#8217;s highest wanted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Theft Auto 5 actor Ned Luke has celebrated the sentencing of an online swatter who will now serve four years in jail. Luke, who played Michael De Santa in Rockstar&#8217;s blockbuster, regularly streams himself playing GTA Online \u2014 and has fallen victim to swatting attempts numerous times. The practice of hoax calling the police&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":83607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83609,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83605\/revisions\/83609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}