Feds won't charge drone operator over White House crash landing
The U.S. Attorney's office in Washington on Wednesday announced that there would be no charges for the government employee who in January crashed a drone on the White House lawn.
Shawn Usman confessed to flying the drone in the wee hours of Jan. 26, but said he lost control of the craft and assumed it landed somewhere harmless — until he awoke to news reports about a mysterious perimeter breach. A forensic analysis later determined the drone "was not operating under the direction of its controller" when it went down, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
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