Hello. How you doing, ma'am? Sheriff's office. >> Hi. >> Hi. Is your husband home by chance? >> Sure. Got to talk to him. >> Okay. Hi. >> How you doing, sir? >> Okay. Complain. What's up? >> So, I'm going to be Okay, we got a wasp over your head. >> Oh, >> yeah. >> Wait a minute. Let me >> Yeah. Let's close it before we get in the house. >> What the hell is this? So, it's actually it's actually in reference to that. So, at some point today, did a drone fly over your house and you shoot at it? I'm going be real blunt with you and ask. >> Yeah. >> You did? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Why'd you shoot at it? >> Because I thought it was somebody turn around playing games on my house. >> I got you. Where did you see the drone at? >> Right above me. >> Can you walk out and just kind of show me >> right there? Sitting straight above it. >> Straight above me. >> Do you have any idea? >> Hovered. >> Hovered. Lowered some kind of cord down or something. Turned around, sent something back up, and then after it was shot at, it turned around, went north. >> Gotcha. Okay. What' you shoot at it with? >> 9 mm. >> Okay. All right. Um, >> how much trouble am I in? >> Quite a bit. You've been honest with me. I'm going be honest with you. Uh quite a bit actually. So there's a federal charge that goes along with it. There's a felony charge that goes along with it. That's kind of like where we're at. >> Okay. Okay. >> What what happens? What happens and what >> Well, before we continue this conversation, I'm really just for you being honest, you really just me off off guard. I'm not going >> What am I What am I going to do? I'm going to lie. >> True. All right, sir. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say? >> Put me under arrest. I'm just going to rand you the Miranda warning just so I can get out that way you and I can continue our conversation. Okay, >> I understand the Miranda warning. I don't have to speak to you unless I want an attorney. Okay, >> I got you. Let me just read you this real quick and then uh we'll go from there. Okay, you have the right to remain silent. You >> understand each of these rights I have explained to you. Having these rights in mind, you wish to talk to us now? >> Yes, I understand my rights. >> Yeah, I got you. So, >> it was hovering above your house. It lowered something down. >> No, it just hovered above my house. >> You said something about the police system. >> A cord? Yeah, a cord or something. It stayed there for about 10 minutes. >> Mhm. >> And Yes. I shot at it. Okay, >> I got you. >> And it the cord went up. I turn It turned cuz it was headed It was facing east. >> Okay. >> Cuz that's east, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. I was working on my pool equipment. Oh, you were outside when you noticed it. >> Oh, I was working on my pool equipment. >> Gotcha. >> Right on the outside of the house. I can show you where it is cuz it's still not evidently got blown out from the lightning strike last week. Got >> I'm just finding out. >> So, it came over. It went over my neighbor's head or my neighbor's house. Came over. Came over my house. Stayed there. It was pointing. >> Would you say it was sitting over your property line? >> Yeah. Okay. >> Oh, yeah. Most definitely. Okay. >> That's the only reason. >> Okay. All right. Well, can you do me a favor, boss man? You just hang out right here for me. I'm make a phone call. All right. Let's see where we go from here. >> Well, I appreciate your honesty, sir. But >> I actually thought it was some good >> I I I hear you. So, would you mind showing me like where you were at when you did it when you shot it? >> Yeah. >> I'm so curious where it was. So this is where you were when you shot it? >> No, I was in I was back there. >> So show me show me where you were and where that drone was >> right here. Working on this. >> So you're working on your transformer. >> I'm working I was working on this cuz just saying the salt sensor is bad. >> I got you. So you're sitting here working on it. What what happened? So walk walk me through like like I heard a worrying. Mhm. >> Which I knew I heard it before, so I knew what the sound was. I saw it come over. >> You saw it fly over houses or follow the road? >> Over the house. >> Okay. >> From here. I'm looking at the house. It turns around. Came over. Was over my driveway when it stopped. >> You're for sure it was over your driveway. >> Yeah. >> What were you thinking when you saw this thing over your driveway? >> That was some smart kid that got a gift for for graduation and was playing a peeping tom. >> Okay. So you thought he was kind of spying on you and your wife, but I had after I saw that. >> So that drone made you feel very uncomfortable about it being over you? >> Yeah. >> And there's been a there was a there's I'll call him a gentleman. There's a guy that lives in the development. >> Uh-huh. >> That has done it before and he's been warned. Okay, >> I got you. >> Stop coming over people's houses. >> I got you. >> Okay. Cuz he's post he's even posted the stuff on Facebook, >> right? So, >> so, so you're standing here. >> I'm standing here. >> You see this drone up in the sky? >> It's sitting there. It's hovering, hovering, hovering. As I said, it was facing east. I actually went in the house, got the pistol, >> right? >> Came out. Turned around, waved like this for it to move. It just stayed there. I fired one shot at it. 15 20 seconds later. Well, it was about five seconds later. It pulls this rope up. >> So, there was a robe that went came that came down. You can see a rope coming from it that was on the ground. >> Something a line of some sort. I don't know what you know. >> Turned around, retrieved it, turned north, and went back over the houses. >> Okay. So, when you saw it, could you tell if it was over your property or not? If it was >> Yeah. Could you tell where that rope or pulley was laying or where where it dropped off at? didn't come down all the way. >> How about how high would you say that drone was? >> It was above that tree >> as I'm standing here. Above that tree. >> It was above that tree. >> Okay. And the the line came down to the left of the tree which is what Gabe would turned around and said it's over my property. >> Okay. >> And as I said, >> did anyone come up and ask you about it or say anything to you about it? Nothing. >> Nothing. >> Nobody rang the bell. Not since I went back. So, you've had issues with drones before kind of flying over your house and >> Yeah. One with the gentleman in here and he's posted it on Facebook pictures, aerial pictures of the >> of your guys' property, >> not just mine, but >> multiple people, but it he has posted photos of >> his name is Joe. He lives over on uh Lame Drive on the other side. >> I got you. Okay. So, I'm going to have you do I'm going to have you fill out a sworn statement first and foremost. Okay. I I want to get what you just told me on paper pretty much just how you told me. Okay. I'm probably going to get one from your wife, too, just to just to hide that in there. Okay, >> no problem. >> Um, where's that pistol at by chance? >> It's in the house. >> Okay. Do you know where at? >> Yeah, it's on the counter. >> Okay. Do you care if I go in and take a look at it and just get a photo of it? >> There's There's a round still in the chamber. >> That's fine. Do you know where the You have the casing for it, too, and everything or >> Oh, the casing should be out here. I didn't >> You didn't even pick it up? >> No, I didn't. Probably didn't even think about it, huh? >> No. >> Well, you're lucky. We're looking for it now. Didn't catch didn't catch in the lawn mower this way. >> Yeah. Someone's lawn mower will find it. But I'll come back out here and I'll look for it again. Let's Let's head over there. We'll uh we'll get you started in this statement. Okay. >> Not in bother. Huh? >> Yeah. >> You're being honest with me. I'm being honest with you. >> I What am I? You know what's the best thing to do? Try to lie and then try to remember what I lied about. >> It's easier. >> Yeah. honestly is the best is the best method in my opinion. >> My impression >> my impression. >> Tell us. Yeah. >> When I when I went it was directly over here >> and you walked to right there. >> No, I fired from back there. I had that part wrong. >> Okay. >> I fired from back there. I was working on my pool stuff. It lowered some kind of line or something down. Okay. It was hovering long enough that I left working on the pool, went in, got the gun out of my safe, came back out, and it was still here. >> Did you give any indication to the drone that you didn't want it over you or around your house >> beforehand? Before even going in the house, I was waving it. I was waving it that way. >> Okay. >> You know, like to go away. >> Where were you at? You >> Yeah, he's already mand I'll be happy. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'm uh I'm Detective Land. Hi, the sheriff's office. >> I'm Dennis. >> Yeah. All right. >> Guy admitted to it. It's claiming it was hovering over his house, not where the people told me it was. And there's the drone doesn't have video. It has coordinates. Maybe flight data could say where it was, but he heard it and saw it and shot from there, but he felt like it was like right here. It wouldn't go like he was shooting it away. That thing has no camera. I don't think it has a >> like it a they said it didn't have any video so I don't know how the hell it >> I don't know I don't know I'm confused >> we're standing >> there's a lake here >> and then there's a lake further out your house at the corner there you saw pretty much over the corner of your house >> right and there's two houses there I mean when I was driving down there was a a small little kid that was walking across This is I mean look >> look at the trajectory. >> I see what you're saying. >> Hey to concern myself. >> Like when his camera is the home of security covers. >> It doesn't record. >> It doesn't Okay. >> Okay. Um Okay. Where's your firearm now? Can we take a look at it? >> Yeah. That's where we were headed when you hit sh. >> All right. Yeah, let's go take a look at it. Um, >> round. >> I' I've been looking. >> Brass round. You got to be out of here. >> So, like a >> It's a 9. >> It's a 9 mm copper color. >> Uh, brass color. >> But did you tell Did anyone tell law enforcement? Report to law enforcement? >> I don't know if anybody tell law enforcement. >> I don't need another one. Please. I lost too much equipment now. You don't have any guns on you, right? >> He doesn't have any on them. >> All right, they're fine. You're fine. I'm just fine. You're good. >> Hey, is that is that position? >> It is. >> Come on in here to stay out of >> Come on in. >> It is cuz I was a safe driver many years ago and I changed out of the rain. >> The lightning is kind of what I'm more worried about. >> That's what I was trying to fix. So, you're the >> We had a lightning We had a lightning strike about a week ago. >> Yeah. And it knocked out your pool equipment, huh? >> Blew out. Well, I didn't even know it would knock out the pool equipment until a pool guy was here today. It blew out that camera. It actually was powerful enough it rang my doorbell. >> Blew out my computer. Blew the computer out that was in my bathroom. >> How much art stuff and electronic device stuff have you done? That's kind of interesting. Like, how did that work? The surge made it made it ring. >> Yeah, that it had to be powerful enough. >> If it rang my doorbell >> to have that much electrical EMP, >> that had to be somewhere real close. >> We look it up cuz they record all of them, you know, >> we we looked out. I was surprised it hit. My wife said she saw a flashing in our back room and the doorbell rang and she turned around and yell, "I don't think there's anybody at the door. Just what I need about this. See what it blows up this time. >> Oh, I hope nothing. >> Uh, so that was a Walmart drone that was Were they practicing payload drops? >> So they practiced their own. >> So it No, no. At first it came out as they were doing drops and then what they do is they have two visual operators. There was a car parked two streets up right after Oz O whatever the O street is. Not that one but the other one just pasted it on that side. And there were two people that said they were standing over there. And um they said I asked and I said was it over the culdeac? Now they should have some sort of GPS something saying where it was. >> And even if it was um you know we knew where it was the fact that I did shoot at it and wasn't concerned about where the round landed I guess was the biggest one of his headaches. So I'm just going to uh I'm calling um one of the the drone supervisors. Uh we're going to discuss it a little bit. Um, but we'll figure it out at that point. Okay. >> Now, they turn around and notify people that they >> Well, they don't that's the thing. They don't have to. That's like a that's a service that they provide where they they deliver packages with drones. Um, and it's been on the news. You've heard about it. You never heard about Amazon or I have heard that Walmart was doing it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. But at that point in time when I heard that Walmart was doing it, it was on that side of 27. >> Well, I mean, >> they were talking about on that side. >> Yeah. What they do with that type of >> police area, waved it off and everything, never left. I went inside, went into the safe, got the weapon, came out, tried to shoot it off again. It didn't move. I fired one round at it. Now, they say I hit it, so I must be a good shot or else it's not that far away. So, I'm under all sorts of They say there's $10,000 worth of damage to the drone and all sorts of stuff. So, I'm going to wind up having to find a real good defense lawyer. >> You ready to transport now? You want to go get the wife and >> Yeah, if you don't mind. >> What's her name, sir? >> She was her name. So, what's your wife? Okay. She's probably crying. She should probably be on the right hand side. >> Hi. >> He wants to talk to her real quick if you don't mind. >> Who you want to talk to me? Amanda. >> Sure. >> No, the husband. >> Oh, okay. >> He's about to >> go. I guess I'm taking >> Patty, they're taking me to jail. You're going to have to come to the jail. I don't know where we're going. We don't owe you 50. >> If you want, you can call Bondsman and tell him and they typically charge about 10% for bond. You can pay that >> and he he you go pick him up or if you have cash, you just want to pay the cash. It'll be Lake County bondsman. >> You just look one up on your phone. Google >> see about a good lawyer. He doesn't know where North hands. >> You can handle all that tomorrow. There's no rush for all that. >> I don't know where I'm going to be. Can you go grab some up there? Yeah. Can you grab some slippers? >> You can bond out the flowers. >> You just got to get shoes on, too. >> Yeah. If you want to grab some shoes or else give me your ones right inside if they're clean. >> But, you know, you could be out by the end of tonight and then you can start working. You'll have time. It's just just got to book you through and you can b right out. >> Oh. Um, you can keep the weapon. I'd like my holster. Nothing else. >> We're going to take everything and then we'll give you a car receipt. >> Okay. >> It's all documented. It'll be held in safe storage at the sheriff's office >> and then when it's all done, you get it back. >> So, we go to Lake County. Is that going on 50? >> No, it's up until >> Can I follow somebody? >> Call. >> It'll be a few hours. So, I wouldn't I wouldn't come now. >> If it would make you >> No, I mean I I don't just don't know where I'm going or anything. That's >> Patty. Call Bobby. Tell Bobby you need to you need to get up to the jail. >> Two barries. >> All right. >> Okay. God. >> How about this? >> Two cups. >> You want a coffee in the front? >> Whatever's come Whatever you need to do by protocol. >> Well, no. We We have >> you. You've been fine. There's no issues. We're not, you know. >> Yeah. >> Just let me know if it's too tight. All right. >> Yeah. >> I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. >> He didn't answer his phone. >> Oh, Bobby. >> Yeah, >> he's got to be home. >> I left him a message. He didn't answer his phone. >> There, >> Bronson. Somebody had a card in their pocket. >> No. >> Fine. Take a picture of him. >> She's going to hit you and we're not going to say anything. >> I know that. >> All right. You ready? >> Guess so. Kiss, >> I love you. Okay, >> he'll see you later. >> Don't cry, >> Tari. You got to go up 27. >> I'm going to help. >> Is that Bobby? >> Talk to him before I leave. >> Bobby, >> you go and start and I'll I'll work on this. I promise. >> Wait, don't trip on your >> Yes, sir. The back door. >> He was charged with shooting into a dwelling, vessel, or vehicle. criminal mischief and discharging a firearm in public or on residential property. Thanks for watching. Be sure to subscribe for more videos like this.