North Dakota Cow Thief Is First American Arrested, Jailed With Drone’s Help

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by Ras Radio on January 30, 2014 at 4:54 pm
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A SWAT team also got involved in the armed standoff.

 

By Molly Mulshine

1/28/2014

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s a Predator drone finding you because you wouldn’t give your neighbor his cows back after they wandered onto your property.

Rodney Brossart, the farmer from North Dakota, was arrested after being located by Predator drone, Forbes reports. Sentenced Tuesday, Jan. 14, he is the first American to be sent to the clink thanks to drone assistance, U.S. News & World Report says.

In June 2011, U.S. News reports, police attempted to arrest him because he wouldn’t return the six cows that had grazed onto his property. This resulted in “an armed standoff between Brossart, his three sons and a SWAT team” on his property. It ended only after the family of perps was located by a Predator drone borrowed from Customs and Border Patrol.

Mr. Brossart tried to have the case dismissed on the grounds that there was no warrant for the drone surveillance, but a federal judge rejected his motion.