A man in Rhode Island with a criminal record as a sex offender allegedly flew a drone outside his female neighbor’s window while the woman was getting ready to get into the shower. Late in the evening on June 11, a woman in Cranston was in her bathroom with the…
A Southern California man has been arrested for allegations that he used a drone as a method of delivering drugs to customers. 51-year-old John Thomas Piani is a California native residing in Simi Valley. According to the Simi Valley Police Department, the Simi Valley Police Department Homeless Liaison Officers and…
Portland Police found a suspect they purport is responsible for burglarizing more than one food cart in the area, and they believe that he used a drone to help him illegally enter the establishments. On October 1, in Northeast Portland, two vendors at the Piedmont Station Food Carts, Hapa Howie’s…
On Wednesday, a woman allegedly fired a revolver at an aircraft that she thought was a drone but turned out to be a small plane distributing pesticides in the area. 40-year-old Stacy Nguyen Rodgers lives in Ouachita, Louisiana, which has reportedly had a recent problem with swarms of West Nile…
A California woman, Denise Huskins, described the “hell that we have survived” to her abductor, who was sentenced to 40 years in prison. The police originally dismissed this case as a hoax because it was so elaborate and downright bizarre. Huskins was held for two days, after being kidnapped and…
Our last blog focused on a man who was arrested for flying a drone too close to a hospital and then posting the footage on YouTube. As these model aircraft become more popular and cheaper, we expect more people to be arrested for using them for illegal purposes. This week, a…
Drones are often thought of as airplane-sized, unmanned aircraft intended to get surveillance video of remote areas or bomb distant targets. But they do exist on a much smaller scale, within the purchasing power of the average American hobbyist, one of whom learned last week that doing so can land…