For the second time in less than a month, federal prosecutors have charged someone with pointing a laser at a police helicopter flying over Chicago.
Allen Florence Jr., 60, is charged with one count of “aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States.” Prosecutors say Florence repeatedly pointed a green laser at a Cook County Sheriff’s Police helicopter on the West Side on September 15.
Around 10:11 p.m., the helicopter crew notified Chicago police that “a male Hispanic on a scooter going eastbound on Roosevelt just through Pulaski” had repeatedly shined a green laser at the aircraft, according to police radio transmissions. The crew asked CPD to apprehend the man if officers were “not too busy.”…