A 13-year-old Florida boy is charged with a felony after allegedly pointing a laser at a sheriff’s division helicopter.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office stated the helicopter was within the sky round 12:30 a.m. Thursday within the space of seventh Road Northwest and eleventh Avenue in Largo, when a inexperienced laser lighting gadget was pointed on the plane.
Deputies within the helicopter maintained a visible of the suspect and directed deputies on the bottom to the suspect’s location.
“Get up and get somebody on this gentleman. He’s blinding our pilot,” a deputy within the helicopter is heard saying in video launched by the sheriff’s workplace.
A 13-year-old Florida boy is charged with a felony for pointing a laser at a sheriff’s workplace helicopter. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Physique digicam video then reveals deputies on the bottom finding the younger teen, who reportedly admitted to illuminating the helicopter with a laser lighting gadget. Deputies discovered a flare gun with a mounted inexperienced laser in his jacket.
Deputies stated {the teenager} instructed them he deliberately aimed the laser on the helicopter as a result of he was bored.
When he was at the back of a squad automobile, the boy was heard telling deputies, “I didn’t know it was a police helicopter.”
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{The teenager} instructed deputies he deliberately aimed the laser on the helicopter as a result of he was bored. (Pinellas County Sheriff’s Workplace)
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The boy was arrested and charged with felony misuse of a laser lighting gadget. He was taken to the Pinellas County Juvenile Assessment Center.
In line with Florida statute, it’s a third-degree felony for any particular person to knowingly and willfully shine, level or focus the beam of a laser lighting gadget on a person working a motorized vehicle, vessel or plane.
The incident stays below investigation.
