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A Wisconsin robbery and auto theft suspect was captured by police thanks to a borrowed drone on May 31, according to court papers filed yesterday in Middleton, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Marquis Phiffer, 21, stole a car and robbed a convenience store in Middleton, Wisconsin on May 31.
After allegedly stealing a car that had been left running outside a coffee shop and robbing the store at a BP gas station (he declared he had a gun, but the clerk never saw one), Phiffer was pursued by police. A chase that reached speeds of up to 70mph ended when Phiffer crashed into a parked car. He abandoned the car and ran into a marsh near Tiedemann's Pond, just a few blocks from Middleton's National Mustard Museum.
The Middleton Fire Department lent the police a rubber raft and a camera-equipped DJI Phantom quadrocopter drone used in search and rescue operations to locate Phiffer. He was hiding in the water, and when the police reached him "his shoes were floating away from him," along with a "large wad of cash," Wisconsin State Journal's Ed Trevelen reported. More cash and a hypodermic needle were found in his pocket.
Seems like the same thing as calling in a chopper, but a lot less expensive. Anyone know what the cost differential is?
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(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday July 06 2015, @09:04PM
A lovely young Vancouver woman in the orime of her life claimed to have a gun when she demanded another woman hand over her purse.
She lead the VPD and Clark County Sheriff on a high speed chase, severely injuring a deputy when she collided with his patrol car.
She eluded oursuit at first but they obtained her home address from her license plates. Andvyes she went straight home. The SWAT team surrounded her for three hours until a negotistor convinced her to surrender.
She cited heroin as the reason.
There is quite a lot of heroin here in Vancouver and Portland. One of my very best friends is an addict. I gave him a login on my mac so he could sync his photos from icloud. mI looked through them all not long ago. In most of them he is far more muscular, many of those phitos have his friends, family and coworkers in them.
Now, when he is not in jail, he lives in a squat and dines at the portland rescue misdion.
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