Cleveland police apprehended four people with help from a drone after a shots-fired call on July 26 at an abandoned building on East 55th Street.
The account comes from Cleveland 19 News, which reported Friday on a response that is now more than three months old. Officers were called to a six-story industrial building. Police said they used drones to help locate people for officer safety.
Two People In The Overgrowth
Police said two of the people hid in a dark, heavily overgrown area inside the building. The station’s account does not name the four, and it does not describe charges or a court outcome.
Cleveland 19 also reported that the Cleveland Division of Police posted a Facebook video showing drone technology locating and apprehending the four after the shots-fired response. The published account stops there. It does not describe what the operator saw, or which part of the search the aircraft handled.
Nine Aircraft, Seven Pilots
The department’s drone bench was still small when that call came in. A July 13 cleveland.com report said Cleveland police had nine Skydio X10 drones and seven FAA-certified officers trained to fly them. Those aircraft carry thermal-imaging and high-resolution cameras…