Officer Jason Wilgus used an X-box controller to steer a drone to a burglary in progress around Mount Vernon in south Wichita on Friday afternoon, using a radio to tell two officers on the street what he saw.
He directed officers to a man in a white T-shirt, who put his hands up in the air before the feed cut off and the drone headed back to its base on the roof of Wichita Fire Station No. 2, 1240 South Broadway.
Wilgus, who has been with the department five years, operated from the Wichita Police Department’s real-time information center on the fifth floor at City Hall after a ribbon cutting for the new space that police say will help support officers responding to calls…