{"id":66253,"date":"2015-09-04T18:44:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T01:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=66253"},"modified":"2015-09-04T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T02:12:17","slug":"lancaster-man-accused-of-pointing-laser-at-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/09\/04\/lancaster-man-accused-of-pointing-laser-at-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster man accused of pointing laser at commercial aircraft, LEAPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_66254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66254\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LEAPS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66254\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LEAPS-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Lancaster employs a Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS), a plane used to assist field deputies when coordinating calls for service and responding to emergencies. LEAPS was lit up by a laser Thursday as it searched the ground looking for the suspect\u2019s location, sheriff\u2019s official said. [Photo of LEAP courtesy LASD]\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LEAPS-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LEAPS.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Lancaster employs a Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) to assist field deputies when responding to emergencies. The LEAPS plane was lit up by a laser Thursday as it searched the ground looking for the suspect\u2019s location, sheriff\u2019s official said. [Photo of LEAPS courtesy LASD]<\/figcaption><\/figure>LANCASTER &#8211; A 27-year-old man is in sheriff&#8217;s custody, accused of pointing a laser at a commercial aircraft flying over Lancaster and again at a local law enforcement plane sent to investigate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cory Lien<\/strong> of Lancaster was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of discharging a laser at an aircraft, according to Deputy Joshua Stamsek of the Lancaster Sheriff\u2019s Station.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came after \u201can unidentified commercial airline pilot reported the cockpit of his airplane had been illuminated with what appeared to be a \u2018high powered green laser pointer,\u2019\u201d Stamsek said. \u201cThe plane had been flying over the city of Lancaster at the time of the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A law enforcement plane \u2013 Lancaster\u2019s Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) \u2013was deployed to investigate, Stamsek said.<\/p>\n<p>LEAPS also was lit up by the laser, according to Stamsek, but the pilot was nonetheless able to direct deputies to the suspect&#8217;s location in the 42000 block of 30th Street West.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies located Lien, who &#8220;implicated himself in the crime,&#8221; Stamsek said, adding that a laser pointer was recovered from Lien\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Lien is being held on $25,000 bail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown Los Angeles, according to sheriff&#8217;s online inmate records.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff&#8217;s Aero Bureau has had 36 documented incidents of lasers being pointed at aircraft since 2010, and 25 have led to arrests, Stamsek said.<\/p>\n<p>Lasers pointed into airplane cockpits can temporarily blind a pilot and even cause permanent eye damage, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; A 27-year-old man is in sheriff&#8217;s custody, accused of pointing a laser at a commercial aircraft flying over Lancaster and again at a local law enforcement plane sent to investigate. Cory Lien of Lancaster was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of discharging a laser at an aircraft, according to Deputy Joshua Stamsek of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}