Culver City man Peter Tripp Akemann, 56, was charged with federal crimes in connection with a drone that hit a water-dropping aircraft. The “Super Scooper” was attempting to control the Palisades Fire ...

On January 9, as wildfires raged across California, Akemann drove to the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California. He went to the top floor of a parking lot there and launched a DJI Mini 3 ...

Peter Tripp Akemann, a co-founder of Call of Duty studio Treyarch, has pleaded guilty to crashing a drone into a firefighting ...

Akemann flew his DJI Mini 3 Pro drone into restricted airspace over the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles. The drone collided with a ...

A California man has pleaded guilty to recklessly operating a drone that collided with a Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper as it ...

The defendant has agreed to pay more than $65,000 in restitution and faces up to a year in federal prison, prosecutors said.

The pilot of a drone that crashed into a firefighting plane, leaving a gaping hole and grounding the aircraft during the ...

A Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to crashing a drone into a Super Scooper aircraft making water drops over the ...

Prosecutors said a Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from the incident that briefly ...

Peter Akemann has agreed to cover an estimated $65,169 in plane repairs and to complete 150 hours of community service to help aid Southern California wildfire relief.

Peter Akemann, a former UC Berkeley Ph.D. student and once-prominent video games executive, flew a drone that hit a Super ...

He’ll likely pay $65,000 and do community service.