Drone Catches Man in the Act With Prostitute, Leads to Arrest | Digital Trends

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DRONE GETS FOOTAGE OF MAN WITH PROSTITUTE, LEADS TO ARREST IN OKLAHOMA

By Jason Hahn — December 5, 2015

Drones are going to make it a lot easier for Santa to find out who’s naughty and nice this year. In Oklahoma, an activist and private investigator used his drone to get footage of a “John” and a prostitute consummating their transaction in a car. The video led to the man’s arrest.

Brian Bates, who runs a website that documents “the graphic realities of street prostitution,” captured the footage in question in March and posted the video in August, according to Ars Technica. He said the endeavor began when he saw a female he knew to be a prostitute in the area. After following the John’s car and using his camcorder, he noticed that the prostitute’s pimp was nearby. As a safety precaution, he deployed his drone to get closer footage of the incident.

“It got footage, that otherwise, I don’t think I would’ve gotten,” Bates told News 9. “They were parked in an area where they could’ve seen any one walking up on them.”

He turned the video over to authorities, and Oklahoma County prosecutors charged the man and woman with engaging in lewd acts.

“The use of drones by law enforcement and civilians alike is an emerging area of the law,” First Assistant District Attorney Scott Rowland told News 9. He added that the Constitution does not put any legal restrictions on the civilian use of drones to provide video to law enforcement in the way it does for government parties.


Hollywood stars have already received protection from camera drones in California, and the issue is certain to become a hotter issue as the devices grow in popularity
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Drone Footage Leads To Pair's Lewdness Arrest | The Smoking Gun

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/drone-footage-leads-to-lewdness-charges-784329/

20mm AA-Guns might start to gain in popularity as well!

i'm gonna start my own website now......"Backyard Sun-goddesses"...

i bet i get sued..... just like mister bates is gonna be...

It's a wonder Brian Bates hasnt been killed yet....and he's a hack....

"" For eight years, self-proclaimed “video
vigilante” Brian Bates claimed to have
ambushed prostitutes and their customers,
capturing their actions on videotape and
trying to have them arrested.
Now Bates has been ambushed by similar
tactics.
Twice last month, a prostitute who was
working with Oklahoma City police
secretly transmitted audio of Bates
offering her money to bring her
customers to specified locations and
position them so he could shoot clear
video, police Capt. Jeffrey Becker said.
In one conversation, Bates promised her
more money if she enabled him to shoot
“good footage,” which he described as
graphic sexual footage, Becker said. He
also pledged not to turn over tapes of the
woman to police if she helped him.
After a four-month investigation, Bates
was arrested Tuesday and booked into the
Oklahoma County jail on complaints of
pandering and aiding and abetting
prostitution. He was released shortly
before 2 a.m. Wednesday after posting a
$4,000 bond.""
http://m.newsok.com/article/1876498

I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with D

A voyeur, a criminal, and a snitch...

Oh wait! That's just one person.

I guess the guy only films on public land, and private property he has permission to be on.

I think this would be a thing if the guy was sitting in his car and then flying drones all over the neighborhood or city.

But it seems he just pulls over somewhere out of eyesight from the hooker and john doing it, then rushes up to their car, or flies the drone down onto them from across the property.

I think he knows everyone in the hooker alley so has permission for a lot of places hookers take their johns off the hooker strolling place to bang.

He used to be a staple on daytime talk shows like maury povich, jerry springer, and montel williams, I think.
Hookers caught on cam leads to ratings and cash for him.

I just wonder how he hasn't gotten shot or severely beaten and his cameras stolen.