A Lakewood Police Department drone operation on Colfax Avenue resulted in five arrests last Saturday after agents used a Skydio X10 to watch three separate hand-to-hand drug transactions in real time before moving in on the suspects.
The operation was straightforward in the best possible way. Agents patrolling the intersection of Colfax and Teller observed open-air drug use.
Instead of approaching immediately and watching the evidence walk away, they put the X10 in the air and let it document what was happening below. Three transactions. On camera. Before anyone on the ground made contact, as KKTV reported…