A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she signed a laser light on a Sheriff’s helicopter that flew over her home.
ABC Local 10 News reports that Jacqueline Robledo is facing a felony charge of misuse of a laser lighting device when she shined her laser pointer into the cockpit of a helicopter flying over head during a power outage.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Robledo was standing in the street with a group of people just before 1 a.m. when the helicopter was flying overhead.
Deputies said the pilot and his co-pilot were both blinded by a laser light from below that was shining into the cockpit.
By the time deputies got to the area, the laser light had been put away, but the helicopter’s surveillance video recorded the group.
The report goes on to say that a man was captured on surveillance video putting the laser light away. When questioned by Sheriff officials, he pointed out Robledo as the culprit. It was then she admitted to the shining the laser light at the helicopter.