A tourist from the
Netherlands who created a Grand Prismatic drone accident the afternoon
of August 2 has pleaded guilty to violating the Yellowstone National
Park ban on operating an unmanned aircraft.
According to the National
Park Service, Theodorus Van Vliet entered a guilty plea to violating
the park ban against operating an unmanned aircraft in court proceedings
Tuesday. He was fined $1,000 and ordered to pay over $2,200 in
restitution. NPS officials have been unable to confirm the location of
the unmanned aircraft, which remains somewhere on the floor of the
iconic hot spring.
This is the second
successful prosecution arising from a violation of the ban on use of
unmanned aircraft in Yellowstone, an activity which is prohibited
nationwide on all lands and waters administered by the National Park
System.
Earlier this month,
Andreas Meissner of Germany was sentenced to a one-year ban from the
park, was placed on one year of unsupervised probation, and was ordered
to pay over $1,600 in fines and restitution in return for a guilty plea
in connection with operating an unmanned aircraft that crashed into
Yellowstone Lake near the West Thumb Marina on July 18.
A third case is pending.
Donald Criswell of Molalla, Oregon, has been charged with violating the
ban after he flew his unmanned aircraft over the crowded Midway Geyser
Basin and close to bison on August 19. His case is scheduled to be
heard in federal court in Mammoth Hot Springs in October.
Remember: there are the
ones that got caught. This summer saw a raft of folks using
GoPro-equipped drones to film Yellowstone National Park.
Source: http://yellowstoneinsider.com
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