The false accusations followed disagreements between the two fantasy football players, according to federal prosecutors.

But Matthew Gabriel, 25, who lives in Philly's Mt. Airy neighborhood, took his football fanaticism to a whole 'nother level.

Fantasy football is something fans look forward to every NFL season and group chats with friends in the league can make it ...

A Philadelphia man was arrested after he reported a hoax mass shooting and then a bomb threat in retaliation over a fantasy football disagreement, federal prosecutors said.

A threat against the University of Iowa originated from Fantasy Football. This week a man from Philadelphia pleaded guilty in ...

Matthew Gabriel was responsible for sending two fake tips to authorities in Norway and Iowa after claiming that another member of his fantasy league was planning to commit a mass shooting in ...

The case against Matthew Gabriel, 25, is the tip of the iceberg of a larger problem: Each year authorities in the U.S. alone receive thousands of calls and online messages from people falsely ...

On Wednesday, United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Matthew Gabriel, pleaded guilty to two counts of interstate and foreign communication of a threat to injure. According to ...

Matthew Gabriel, 25, admitted to submitting an anonymous "tip" to the Norwegian Police Security Service in August 2023, claiming a member of his fantasy football chat group who was studying abroad ...

In a news release, federal prosecutors said 25-year-old Matthew Gabriel pleaded guilty to two counts of interstate and foreign communication of a threat to injure. The incidents happened in August ...