Oceanside police had already spotted the burglary suspect inside the strip Mall early Friday morning. They knew he was in the building. Was the question, where?
The answer occurred after the police stole a drone between the ceiling tiles and the roof of the building, where they found their suspect who fell sleeps before falling partially through the tiles, a press police announced on Friday.
Just after 3:15 am, the police responded to a burglary alarm in a company on avenue mission just west of Canyon Avenue. When the police arrived, they saw a suspect inside the premises, police said.
Several officers, including a K-9 unit of the sheriff's office, searched inside but could not find it. They thought he could be in the sanitary of the ceiling – so they put a drone above the ceiling tiles and found a man.
He fell through the ceiling tiles, but a wire caught him and saved him to crash on the ground, said Lieutenant Michael Provence. The police were able to help him.
The 36 -year -old man was arrested and sentenced to the Vista detention center suspected of burglary and what the police said was an unanswered mandate.
Oceanside police have used drones since 2016, and although it is not the first time that a suspect is located in a ceiling, it is not common, said Provence.
The use of the drone on Friday was not linked to a program still in the work to send a drone on a scene immediately after a call and perhaps before the arrival of the officers. The Oceanside municipal council voted last month to approve The proposal as a 13 -month -old pilot program.
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