Teen Used Hoax 911 Call to Extort Money: Yorktown Police

A Connecticut teen faces a felony charge in Yorktown connected to an internet shakedown scheme that goes back three years.

Usama Naseer, 17, of Hamden, CT is charged with grand larceny.

In February 2015, Ossining police called Yorktown police to say they had gotten a call from someone who said he had shot someone on Fair Hills Drive. That address is actually in Yorktown -- both departments converged on the address and determined the call was a hoax.

Yorktown detectives launched an extensive investigation. Now police allege that between September 2014 and February 2015, Naseer was communicating online with a kid from Yorktown. He threatened to have the kid "swatted" if he wasn't paid off.

"Swatting" is slang for tricking emergency services based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident.

After he placed the hoax call, the kid sent him money, police said.

The investigation was concluded with the assistance of police departments in Ossining and Hamden.

Naseer went to Yorktown Police Headquarters April 14, where he was processed and arraigned. He posted $2,500 bail and was released. He is due back in Yorktown town court May 12.