FBI Probing Drone Use Over Pipeline Site

MARCH 28--A Dakota Access Pipeline opponent whose drone was shot at by police over the North Dakota protest site is being investigated by the FBI for flying the small aerial vehicle too close to helicopters being used by law enforcement to monitor protesters, records show.

Federal investigators recently secured a search warrant for the contents of a Facebook account operated by Dean Dedman, 31, a member of the Standing Rock Hunkpapa tribe in South Dakota.

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