Ascension Parish resident shoots down neighbor’s drone

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Aaron Hernandez

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Last week, he said, when his wife saw the drone flying above her, she rode her horse to the property line and told Hernandez to stop flying the machine over her property.

“He said, ‘Call the cops.’ We called the cops,” Vidrine said.

The sheriff’s deputy that answered the call asked Hernandez to stop flying it over the neighbor’s land, Vidrine said.

“Yesterday, he did it again,” Vidrine said Tuesday.

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Vidrine said he and his family first noticed the drone about four months ago when his wife’s aunt held a birthday party at his house for her grandchild.

“The drone was flying about 20 feet over our Slip ‘N Slide. It stayed there about an hour. We didn’t know what it was,” Vidrine said.

His wife began noticing that the drone would fly overhead when she was outdoors, he said.

“I let it slide again,” Vidrine said. “I thought maybe it was a little kid doing it.”

Then, he said, his wife, a horse owner, began noticing that the drone would fly overhead while she was outside practicing barrel racing.

“There are 25 acres out here (where the drone could go) and it would be 20 feet over her head,” Vidrine said.

At some point, Vidrine followed the drone through the woods to his property line and saw his neighbor with the control.

“I know he saw me coming. He ran inside,” Vidrine said.

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Hernandez said he had his 7-year-old niece with him at the time and the incident frightened her.

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