FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno man accused of violating a restraining order learned the hard way that you can run from officers, but not from the department\u2019s eye in the sky.<\/p>\n
According to the Fresno Police Department, Northwest District officers responded Tuesday morning, May 26, to a confidential location for a reported restraining order violation.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, the department\u2019s Drone as First Responder (DFR) unit spotted a man leaving the area on an e-scooter.<\/p>\n
Fresno Police Department drone tracks done man leading leading police on a chase. (VIDEO: Fresno Police Department)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Drone operators tracked the suspect from above while relaying his location and direction of travel to responding officers.<\/p>\n
Police say the suspect appeared completely unaware he was being monitored by the drone as he cruised through the area on the scooter.<\/p>\n
Once officers attempted to stop him, the suspect tried to flee, first on the scooter and then on foot. <\/p>\n
With assistance from the DFR unit, patrol officers were able to quickly locate and arrest the suspect without further incident.<\/p>\n
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The man was taken into custody on charges related to the restraining order violation and evading officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno man accused of violating a restraining order learned the hard way that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-336453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}