{"id":78234,"date":"2018-05-04T05:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-criminal-gang-used-a-drone-swarm-to-obstruct-an-fbi-hostage-raid"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:13:09","slug":"a-criminal-gang-used-a-drone-swarm-to-obstruct-an-fbi-hostage-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-criminal-gang-used-a-drone-swarm-to-obstruct-an-fbi-hostage-raid","title":{"rendered":"A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-criminal-gang-used-a-drone-swarm-to-obstruct-an-fbi-hostage-raid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just one of the ways bad guys are putting drones to use, law enforcement officials say.<\/p>\n<p>DENVER, Colorado \u2014 Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones \u2014 and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series of \u201chigh-speed low passes at the agents in the observation post to flush them,\u201d the head of the agency\u2019s operational technology law unit told attendees of the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xponential.org\/xponential2018\/public\/enter.aspx\"> AUVSI Xponential<\/a> conference here. Result: \u201cWe were then blind,\u201d said Joe Mazel, meaning the group lost situational awareness of the target. \u201cIt definitely presented some challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains \u201claw enforcement-sensitive,\u201d Mazel said Wednesday, declining to say just where or when it took place. But it shows how criminal groups are using small drones for increasingly elaborate crimes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/05\/criminal-gang-used-drone-swarm-obstruct-fbi-raid\/147956\/\">https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2018\/05\/criminal-gang-...id\/147956\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that\u2019s just one of the ways bad guys are putting drones to use, law enforcement officials say. DENVER, Colorado \u2014 Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78252,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78234\/revisions\/78252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}