Sports Pranksters Facing Federal Charges

Two Plymouth men who allegedly planned to line up professional sports tryouts are facing federal wiretapping charges for taping a phone conversation between two NFL general managers and sold the recording to a sports website.

Joshua Barber, 20, and Nicholas Kaiser, 20, face up to five years in prison and a $500,000 fine if convicted of secretly recording a conference call they allegedly organized between Buffalo Bills General Manger Buddy Nix and Tampa Bay Buccaneers General Manager Mark Dominik, according to federal procecutors.

The Boston Globe reports that Barber first called Nix posing as Dominik and then called Dominik and used the conference call function to link the calls for the conversation, recorded by Kaiser.

In a roughly six-minute call posted on Deadspin in March, Nix and Dominik discuss potential trades and complain about their lack of a franchise quarterback, according to the Boston Herald.

Deadspin only learned about the prank after the site was approached by the pair, to whom they paid $200, said Editor-in-Chief Tommy Craggs.

Barber and Kaiser are charged with intentionally intercepting a wire communication and making a telephone call without disclosing their identity with the intent to annoy or harass. They are scheduled to appear in federal court June 4 in Buffalo, according to the .