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 ...

A Canadian “Super Scooper” aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles had to be grounded after it hit a drone flying ...

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

A drone hit the wing of a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper plane fighting the LA fires. Cal Fire only has one other Quebec 1 aircraft in its arsenal.

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 ...

According to fire officials, the plane hit a privately owned ... according to ABC 7. Super Scooper planes fly low and pick up water, which is then dumped over wildfires. The FAA has restricted ...

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

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

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