ST. LOUIS – A Warrenton, Missouri, man will spend nearly two years in federal prison for temporarily blinding a police helicopter pilot with a laser pointer.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri said Joshua J. Johnson, 44, was convicted in July of one count of knowingly aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
Prosecutors said Johnson used a laser pointer on the night of Aug. 9, 2024, to target a marked Metro Air Support helicopter as it was flying over the Benton Park neighborhood…