Yeah, I used to manage a Google account for a school district. I was able to disable the reply all for certain groups. My solution was to disable it for all groups except for one that I specifically created to allow it. The only members of that group had to be allowed in through a vote of our little tech committee which consisted of me and various upper level admins.
It worked quite well and it was hilarious listening to the students bitch that I had locked them out of one of the pranks they wanted to do.
I’m sure there is a lot more to the story but the dude was called in because he sort of resembled the pictures and a Karen min wage worker thought he was a little sus… Add in that she immediately tried to claim the reward.
Also, the sheer amount of damning evidence found on him is incredibly suspicious… That was all in his backpack… The day after they found the backpack in central park full of monopoly money. Absolutely nothing about this manhunt and suspect makes sense. Even accounting for social media misinformation this whole thing is almost too much satire to be real.