Enlarge (credit: ftwitty / Getty) John Cameron Denton, a founding member of the neo-Nazi group the Atomwaffen Division, has pled guilty to participating in several "swatting" incidents that occurred in 2018 and 2019, the US government announced on Tuesday. Swatting is a dangerous hoax that involves calling the police in an effort to get a SWAT team dispatched to a victim's home. Pro Publica first unmasked Denton as a leader of the Atomwaffen Division in a 2018 story linking the group to the murder of a gay Jewish college student.