Pinto Nag sends us a link to Forbes which reports that with all of the talk about law enforcement in the US getting drones, one had finally been used successfully to prosecute probably the most dangerous criminal who ever walked the surface of our planet; Rodney Brossart of North Dakota who apparently broke the law when three of his neighbor’s cows strayed onto his property and Brossart didn’t return them;<\/p>\n
After Brossart was arrested, an armed standoff ensued between his three sons and a SWAT team. His 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 local newspapers<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From that link in the quote;<\/p>\n
Brossart was convicted in November of terrorizing two law enforcement officers who arrested him June 23, 2011, over a neighbor’s three cows and their calves that strayed on to his farm. It’s a felony with a top sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.<\/p>\n
Also Tuesday, Brossart’s three sons — Thomas, Alex and Jacob, all in their 20s — pleaded guilty each to a misdemeanor charge of menacing law enforcement officers, reduced from the felony terrorizing charge, in an agreement with prosecutors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, I’m just happy that cattle rustler Brossart and his sons are off the streets for six months. Spending that money on drones has certainly paid off.<\/p>\n
Records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, found that CBP Predator drones flew 700 missions between 2010 and 2012 for other law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and local police departments. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"