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Hollywood Man Arrested For Crashing Drone Into LAPD Chopper
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A Hollywood man was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he operated a drone which slammed into a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter back in September, forcing it to make an emergency landing. Andrew Rene Hernandez, 22, was arrested by FBI agents on one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reports. Authorities say it’s the first criminal case in the nation in which a person has been charged with unsafely operating a drone. (losangeles.cbslocal.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I was all gung-ho to get my UAS license and buy a really nice drone. I bought all the books and started studying and taking sample tests. Then I kept seeing all the documents from the nearby airbase insisting they also control from ground to the top layer of the Class C cake - far more than what the FAA was calling controlled airspace. Add to the FAA regulations are several new paragraphs of Texas Code concerning drones which any trailer-park lawyer could use to turn you into a homeless person, I decided I was better off finding something else to do.
I wish everyone were as wise as you are.
ditto for Joel, need more of him.
It's unlikely that Hernandez provided the dronie (drone selfie) used in the article, so it likely came from the digital evidence that was found on the SD card of the crashed drone.
In other words Hernandez didn't provide the picture, the picture provided Hernandez.
Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.