{"id":90810,"date":"2026-10-07T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90810"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:36:44","slug":"fbi-arrests-29-year-old-alabama-man-after-epic-reported-fortnite-voice-chat-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90810","title":{"rendered":"FBI Arrests 29-Year-Old Alabama Man After Epic Reported Fortnite Voice Chat Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>The FBI arrested a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> player last week after Epic reported threats he made over voice chat.<\/p>\n<p>Epic reported Edward Frith, an avid Fortnite player from Alabama, over alarming messages spoken while playing Fortnite. He was later arrested when the FBI turned up at his house. <\/p>\n<p>According to the affidavit (reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/aftermath.site\/fbi-fortnite-arrest-threats-murder\/\">Aftermath<\/a>), Frith, who went by the username \u201cWagesOfNinja,\u201d said he was letting all his rage out because he wanted to \u201cliterally murder somebody\u201d and that he thinks about killing \u201cevery day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s see if the FBI is going to show up at my door because I&#8217;ll shoot them motherf****rs too,&#8221; Frith said, before the FBI showed up at his door. Frith\u2019s other comments were just as disturbing, with the Fortnite player suggesting he was planning to end his life by charging at police.<\/p>\n<p>Epic made what was described as a &#8220;voluntary emergency disclosure&#8221; to the FBI National Threat Operations Section (NTOS) Exigent Threat Research and Analysis Crisis Team (EXTRACT), relating to the statements. The developer then provided the FBI with an audio recording and transcript of the threats.<\/p>\n<p>The Alabama resident was indicted for violating Interstate Threatening Communications on September 23. He was remanded into custody while awaiting a trial, after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI arrested a Fortnite player last week after Epic reported threats he made over voice chat. Epic reported Edward Frith, an avid Fortnite player from Alabama, over alarming messages spoken while playing Fortnite. He was later arrested when the FBI turned up at his house. According to the affidavit (reported by Aftermath), Frith, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":90812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90810"}],"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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90814,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90810\/revisions\/90814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}