Authorities in North Dakota used a Predator military drone to conduct video surveillance of a farm in an effort to find evidence of cattle rustling. This extraordinary surveillance was conducted without a warrant, although the sheriff acquired warrants to search the property by conventional means and for the arrest of the farmer.
With drone availability on the rise and with this seeming nod by the courts permitting the drone surveillance in this case without a warrant, how long will it be before arrests based on warrantless aerial surveillance become the norm?
In the first-ever case of a U.S. citizen being convicted and sentenced to prison based in part on evidence gathered by a drone, Lakota, N.D., farmer Rodney Brossart got a three-year sentence for his role in an armed standoff with police that began after he was accused of stealing his neighbors’ stray cattle in 2011.
Brossart was arrested on June 23, 2011, but his family refused at gunpoint to let authorities armed with a search warrant onto their 3,600-acre property to investigate the neighbors’ complaint. Brossart was later released on bail, and warrants issued for his three sons, but the family refused for months to respond to orders to appear in court, prompting Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke to have the U.S. Border Patrol deploy a Predator drone conduct live video surveillance of the farm.
The drone monitored the family’s movements on the farm following the armed standoff. It was not clear how long the drone was deployed or whether it gathered evidence of the alleged cattle theft.
But the eye in the sky gathered enough evidence to prompt Janke’s men to finally move in in November 2011, arresting five family members on terrorizing charges.
Brossart was arrested on June 23, 2011, but his family refused at gunpoint to let authorities armed with a search warrant onto their 3,600-acre property to investigate the neighbors’ complaint. Brossart was later released on bail, and warrants issued for his three sons, but the family refused for months to respond to orders to appear in court, prompting Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke to have the U.S. Border Patrol deploy a Predator drone conduct live video surveillance of the farm.Source: FoxNews
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shoot down the drones, problem solved
Good idea if you can see or hear them. that will give them an excuse to arm them and shoot us , but maybe they already are.,
The American government against it’s citizens ….this is a textbook case
Sooooooo,even the dems enemies could use this against them right??????
Drones should never be allowed as evidence because they can be edited and made to look anyway the picture taker wants them to look. just by moving the drone around in different directions.
Since they already use illegal spying info to obtain warrants, this seems like a logical step. The next step is using drones to kill americans on US soil.
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