{"id":223215,"date":"2025-10-18T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223215\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T22:28:09","slug":"7-people-charged-with-flying-drones-over-rogers-centre-during-blue-jays-playoff-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/223215\/","title":{"rendered":"7 people charged with flying drones over Rogers Centre during Blue Jays playoff games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police have laid additional charges against seven people for flying drones over Rogers Centre during Toronto Blue Jays playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they identified and intercepted seven unauthorized drone flights over the stadium during Games 1 and 2 of the American League Championship Series on October 12 and 13.<\/p>\n<p>Eight charges were laid against seven people operating drones, including micro-drones, which are often marketed as recreational toys. Fines were also issued for violating a federally designated no-fly zone.<\/p>\n<p>The Rogers Centre is within the nearby Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport\u2019s no-fly zone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tc.canada.ca\/en\/aviation\/drone-safety\/learn-rules-you-fly-your-drone\/flying-your-drone-safely-legally\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Transport Canada rules say<\/a> anyone flying without a drone pilot certificate can face fines of between $1,000 and $3,000 for flying where you are not allowed. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Toronto Police Service is reminding the public to leave your drone at home! Rogers Centre is a no-drone zone during all Blue Jays postseason games,\u201d officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis restriction applies without exception, including to micro-drones weighing less than 249 grams. All drone operators are responsible for knowing and following federal aviation rules and regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police previously charged two people with violating the no-fly zone over Rogers Centre back on October 4 and 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have laid additional charges against seven people for flying drones over Rogers Centre during Toronto Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-223215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}