A Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in January, the Justice ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The pilot of a drone that crashed into a firefighting plane, leaving a gaping hole and grounding the ...

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

The pilot of a drone that crashed into a firefighting plane, leaving a gaping hole and grounding the aircraft during the ...

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

A Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to recklessly operating a drone that crashed into and damaged a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire earlier ...

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

Peter Tripp Akeman, 56, admitted to launching a private drone from a rooftop on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade Jan. 9 ...

A drone owned and piloted by the ex-president of Skydance Interactive damaged and temporarily grounded a Canadian Super ...

Peter Akemann, the former president of Skydance Interactive who was the owner and pilot of a drone that damaged and ...

A Culver City man accused of flying a drone and crashing it into a water-dropping aircraft during the Palisades Fire has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, federal prosecutors announced Friday.