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UK: Man arrested for aiming laser pen at police helicopter over Trowbridge

A 30-year-old man was arrested for aiming a laser pen at a Wiltshire air ambulance flying over Trowbridge on November 22 2013.

The helicopter crew was on a training exercise so it was able to turn around and identify the laser’s location. Ground officers arrested the unnamed man. He was charged with endangering an aircraft.

From the Bath Chronicle and This Is Wiltshire