Santa Monica Police noticed and stopped a person who was burglarizing automobiles in a parking zone close to the pier through the use of a drone.
On July 6, a Santa Monica police officer was directing the division’s drone again to the station from a radio name when the officer determined to survey the Fourth of July weekend crowd close to the pier and the close by parking tons.
Because the drone flew over Lot 1 North, the parking zone subsequent to the pier, he observed a person wandering the lot, in line with a video the division posted on their YouTube account.
“As [the pilot] watched, the topic approached an unoccupied parked car, pulled out instruments from his sweatshirt and rapidly punched open the lock of the driving force’s facet door,” the division stated within the video.
The drone footage exhibits the suspected burglar break the lock of the driving force’s facet door of a black SUV then climb into the automotive.
He stayed within the automotive for about two minutes, the division stated.
Whereas the person was contained in the car, the drone pilot referred to as for officers to reply to the placement.
However earlier than they arrived, the alleged burglar acquired out of the SUV and broke the lock of one other car, police stated.
“The pilot was capable of information responding officers to the proper aisle within the parking zone the place they discovered the alleged burglar in possession of a number of stolen gadgets and positioned him beneath arrest for car housebreaking and varied different theft-related crimes,” the division stated.
The division’s drone is a part of a First Responder Program that makes use of a sworn officer pilot to fly the drone and can help responding officers on scene by checking for suspects fleeing the realm and provides a path of journey.
