LEROY KNEVIL wrote:
> Man Arrested After Laser Beamed Into N.Y. Helicopter Cockpit
> Tuesday, August 01, 2006
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206586,00.html
>
> •Mineta Outlines Cockpit Laser Alert Plan•Pilots Urge Gov't Alerts on Laser
> Incidents•Man Charged
> Under Patriot Act in Laser Case•Feds Probe Tenn. Laser Beam Report•Feds
> Investigate Laser Beam
> Case•Feds Question Man in Cockpit Laser Mystery•Pilots Ponder Mystery Laser
> Beams•FBI Probing
> Laser Directed Into Cockpits•Terrorists May Use Lasers to Down Planes
> NEW YORK — A 19-year-old man was arrested after authorities said he shined
> a laser pointer at a
> police helicopter.
>
> The bright green laser beamed into the cockpit late Monday night,
> temporarily blinding the
> officers, said Melissa Klein, an NYPD spokeswoman.
>
> Police arrested Anthony Pepe a short time later, and charged him with
> reckless endangerment and
> criminal possession of a weapon, Klein said.
>
> In December, a Paterson, N.J., man was charged with shining a laser pointer
> into the cockpit of a
> hovering news helicopter.
>
> Pedro Vega, 36, was charged with a variety of offenses, including
> interference with
> transportation and assault, after authorities said he beamed the laser
> pointer into the cockpit
> of a WNBC television helicopter.
>
> And in November, David W. Banach, 39, of Parsippany, N.J., who had flashed a
> laser pointer at a
> commercial airplane, pleaded guilty to violating a section of the USA
> Patriot Act involving
> interfering with pilots of a passenger aircraft.
>
> The crew aboard the charter flight from Boca Raton, Fla., said the laser
> temporarily blinded two
> pilots, and they could not see their flight instruments.
>