Fortnite player arrested by FBI after Epic Games reported his voice chat threats

A 29-year-old Alabama man, Edward Lee Frith, was arrested on September 23 on an interstate threatening communications charge after Epic Games voluntarily handed voice chat recordings to the FBI on September 20, in which he threatened to shoot FBI agents and a police officer.

• Epic gave the FBI voice chat recordings on September 20; the arrest followed on September 23
• The WagesOfNinja account was accessed over 1,700 times from IPs in Alabama
• Frith pleaded not guilty on September 24 and was detained on September 29 pending trial
• Fortnite's voice reporting captures the last five minutes of chat when enabled