NYC Teacher Gets Community Service For US Open Drone Crash

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Dave Lucas

Published October 2, 2015 at 4:48 PM EDT

A New York City high school teacher who accidentally crashed his drone at the U.S. Open tennis tournament has been ordered to perform five days of community service.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said Friday that Daniel Verley has cooperated fully with investigators. The charges will be dismissed in six months if he completes his service and stays out of trouble.

Verley had gone to photograph a park sculpture on Sept. 3. The drone lost signal and ended up at the nearby Louis Armstrong Stadium. It plummeted into an unoccupied part of the stadium during the next-to-last game of a second-round match. No one was injured.

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Dave Lucas is WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief. Born and raised in Albany, he’s been involved in nearly every aspect of local radio since 1981. Before joining WAMC, Dave was a reporter and anchor at WGY in Schenectady. Prior to that he hosted talk shows on WYJB and WROW, including the 1999 series of overnight radio broadcasts tracking the JonBenet Ramsey murder case with a cast of callers and characters from all over the world via the internet. In 2012, Dave received a Communicator Award of Distinction for his WAMC news story "Fail: The NYS Flood Panel," which explores whether the damage from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee could have been prevented or at least curbed. Dave began his radio career as a “morning personality” at WABY in Albany.

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