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A Lee County Sheriff’s Office drone searching for a bear in southwest Florida recorded a man pointing a BB gun at the aircraft and firing at least twice, and the footage put a federal felony on camera in real time. The arrest came Saturday, and the agency later released the video alongside footage of the…
Port St. Lucie’s police department flipped the switch on its new Drone as First Responder program on June 11, and the system did not wait long to prove itself. Within hours, a remotely launched drone located a missing autistic woman before she could reach a nearby canal, arriving on scene ahead of the responding officers.…
Vancouver just became the first city in Canada to put police drones on rooftops, ready to launch the second a 911 call lands. The Vancouver Police Department is rolling out six Skydio X10 aircraft in docked Drone as First Responder stations across the city, approved by Transport Canada and timed to arrive before the 2026…
A shoplifting run at a Buena Park Kohl’s ended with two people in custody on June 9, and the deciding factor never touched the ground. When one suspect bolted on foot and folded himself into a stranger’s backyard shed, he figured the dark and the fences would hide him. A police drone overhead, reading his…
A Memphis police drone tracked a suspect into a black Audi and logged the license plate before officers ever reached the scene. That arrest is the headline. The detail that caught my eye sits in the background of the footage. The department isn’t flying one drone brand. It’s flying three. A Skydio X10, a DJI…
Metro Nashville Police put three Skydio drones in the air over the Madison precinct before the Metro Council ever signed off, and now the program is catching heat for it. The department says a legal exemption let it skip approval. A council member and community organizers say that reading bends the rules. The drones are…
North Richland Hills police are launching a Skydio Drone as First Responder trial this month, putting eyes on accident scenes and active emergencies before the first patrol unit arrives. Two docking stations will sit at a strategic central location in the city, letting pilots launch a drone in as little as 20 seconds. The trial…
Westmag emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $11 million in seed funding to manufacture drone motors and robot actuators in South San Francisco, aiming squarely at the one part of the American drone supply chain almost no one has tried to fix. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Founders Fund, Lux Capital, NFDG,…
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