It doesn’t matter if it is a drunken flight, incursion over the White House fence, or just a regular joy ride, drone flying of any kind is forbidden over airspace in D.C. and national parks.
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In May, Secret Service officers stopped a person who was flying a small drone over Lafayette Park in front of the White House.
Reached by phone Friday, Solomon said that he had been trying to take pictures of the monument and that the wind blew the drone across a street that divides the Ellipse from the grounds of the Washington Monument.
The two operators were issued criminal citations, CBS News correspondent Chip Reid reports.
Authorities say the operator apparently lost control of the drone, leading it to land on the Ellipse.
A Washington man faces federal charges after crashing a drone near the White House in the nation’s capital early Friday, federal authorities said.
U.S. Park Police say that Howard Solomon III of Washington, D.C., was cited with launching, landing or operating unmanned aircraft and that the drone was confiscated.
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Police also confiscated the drone and the equipment used to operated it.
