One California sheriff’s office is finding a new use for its drone…
Here’s your morning minute…
Deputies in Sacramento had been at a standoff with a parolee at large.
They had seen him with a gun earlier in the day…
But he had stopped responding to negotiators.
So they sent in a drone with a heavy-duty magnet.
The guy was either passed out or pretending to be asleep.
They used the drone to remove a knife from his hands… and no one was hurt.
And a street racing stop in Florida had officers doing a double-take.
That’s because the driver, who was clocked doing 110 in a 45-mile-per-hour zone… is 85 years old!
He told officers a car had swerved at him, so he was following him.
Police didn’t buy it—one of the officers had witnessed him racing in his Nissan against a red Corvette.
And check out this huge fire at a tire shop in Tulare.
When firefighters arrived, they found stacks of tires fully engulfed in flames and sending huge plumes of black smoke into the sky.
Firefighters worked to qu...