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Owner of iPad-controlled craft becomes first in UK to be convicted of interfering in police operation
Adam Forrest @adamtomforrest
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The Independent
The owner of a drone has become the first in the UK to be prosecuted for interfering with a police operation after flying his £900 device into the path of a search helicopter.
Sergej Miaun, 37, was found guilty of making an unsafe drone flight at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court on Friday.
A police helicopter had been out looking for a missing woman in the area along the River Nene in Cambridgeshire on 9 December, but the pilot was forced to take “evasive action” when Mr Miaun’s drone flew narrowly underneath.