{"id":499076,"date":"2026-03-27T23:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499076\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:05:10","slug":"man-sentenced-for-shining-laser-at-police-aircraft-in-dawley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499076\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for shining laser at police aircraft in Dawley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man who shone a laser at a police plane airborne during an operation linked to a road rage incident in Telford has been given a 12-month conditional discharge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reed Beers, 60, of Old Office Road, Dawley, appeared at Telford Magistrates&#8217; Court and admitted dazzling or distracting a pilot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The offence happened on 10 March as the National Police Air Service (NPAS) provided support to officers investigating reports of a man with a suspected firearm after a road rage incident on Mossey Green Way in Ketley Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At 19:52 GMT the pilot of a fixed-wing NPAS plane reported a green laser being directed at the aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who shone a laser at a police plane airborne during an operation linked to a road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-499076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}