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A Chinese language citizen residing in Los Angeles allegedly flew a drone and took aerial pictures of Vandenberg Space Force Base endmost life, federal prosecutors stated Monday.
Yinpiao Zhou, 39, was once arrested this date on the San Francisco World Airport previous to boarding a China-bound gliding, the Justice Branch stated. He’s charged with failure to check in an plane no longer offering transportation and violation of nationwide protection airspace.
On Nov. 30, drone detections techniques on the army set up in Santa Barbara County detected a drone gliding over the bottom, prosecutors stated.
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The drone originated from Ocean Soil, a community section then to the bottom, and flew for almost an moment. All over its gliding, the plane traveled to an altitude of virtually one mile above garden degree, government stated.
Safety group of workers from the bottom going to a ground and spoke with Zhou and any person with him.
Zhou had a drone that flew over the bottom vague in his jacket, prosecutors stated.
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The drone was once nearest searched and investigators discovered a number of pictures of the bottom have been taken from above, government stated. A seek of Zhou’s cellular phone confirmed that he performed a Google seek one life previous for the word “Vandenberg Space Force Base Drone Rules” and messaged with someone else about hacking his drone to permit it to fly upper than it will in a different way.
Zhou is an everlasting resident, maximum not too long ago returning from China in February. The individual with him at Ocean Soil had entered the USA from China on Nov. 26.
Zhou faces as much as 4 years in jail.
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