The defendant has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said.

A Culver City man has pleaded guilty to operating the drone that damaged and temporarily grounded a Super Scooper ...

Prosecutors said a Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from the incident that briefly ...

Call of Duty studio co-founder Peter T. Akemann recently pleaded guilty to striking a firefighting plane with his drone ...

On January 9, as wildfires raged across California, Akemann drove to the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. He went to the top floor of a parking lot there and launched a DJI Mini 3 ...

Federal charges were announced Friday in connection to a civilian drone that hit and damaged a water-dropping super scooper ...

A civilian drone operator agreed to plead guilty after being charged in connection with a collision that damaged a ...

A 56-year-old Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to “recklessly operating a drone” that ended up crashing into and damaging a Super Scooper as it was ...

Akemann flew his DJI Mini 3 Pro drone into restricted airspace over the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles. The drone collided with a ...

He’ll likely pay $65,000 and do community service.

"Lack of common sense and ignorance of your duty as a drone pilot will not shield you from criminal charges," FBI Los Angeles ...