What do you say to a drone that makes an arrest? “Book him, Predator?” This was no joke for a North Dakota farmer who has the dubious honor of being the first American sentenced to prison with the assistance of a Predator drone. Rodney Brossart was sentenced to three years in prison, of which all but six months was suspended, for a June 2011 incident in which police attempted to arrest him over his failure to return three cows from a neighboring farm that had strayed on to his property. An armed standoff between Brossart, his three sons and a SWAT team then ensued on Brossart’s property, which only ended after father and sons were located by a border-surveillance Predator borrowed from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which enabled local police to safely apprehend them, according to U.S. News and World Report. Read more: forbes/sites/michaelpeck/2014/01/27/predator-drone-sends-north-dakota-man-to-jail/
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:22:39 +0000
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