{"id":6399,"date":"2011-12-12T18:35:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T00:12:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T18:35:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6399","title":{"rendered":"Slatest &amp; LAT: Police Use Predator Drone To Nab North Dakota Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Slatest: <a href=\"http:\/\/slatest.slate.com\/posts\/2011\/12\/12\/domestic_drones_north_dakota_police_use_predator_spy_plane_to_arrest_suspects.html?from=rss\/&amp;wpisrc=newsletter_slatest\">Police Use Predator Drone To Nab North Dakota Suspects; Operation leads to first known arrests of U.S. citizens with aid of unmanned spy planes<\/a> by Will Oremus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drones: They\u2019re not just for hunting foreigners anymore.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-drone-arrest-20111211,0,72624,full.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports that police in North Dakota this past summer made what are believed to be the first arrests of U.S. citizens with the help of a Predator spy drone.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke called in the unmanned, unarmed aircraft after he was chased off of a family farm by three men with rifles, the Times explains. It circled the 3,000-acre plot, tracked down the suspects and showed they were unarmed, allowing police to converge and arrest them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}