Akemann will plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense after his drone damaged an aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire in January ...

Peter Akemann, the former president of Skydance Interactive, has pleaded guilty of recklessly flying a drone that collided ...

Prosecutors said a Culver City man agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from the incident that briefly grounded the plane.

Peter Akemann, the man accused of damaging a super scooper plane with a drone while flying it over the Palisades Fire, has pleaded guilty.

He’ll likely pay $65,000 and do community service.

Federal charges were announced Friday in connection to a civilian drone that hit and damaged a water-dropping super scooper aircraft during the destructive Palisades Fire.

Peter Akemann has agreed to cover an estimated $65,169 in plane repairs and to complete 150 hours of community service to help aid Southern California wildfire relief.

A southern California man pleaded guilty to recklessly operating the drone that damaged an aircraft fighting the Palisades Fire on January 9. Friday, Peter Akemann admitted to flying the drone that ...

A Southern California man admitted to operating a drone that collided with a firefighting airplane during the Palisades Fire ...

A man has accepted responsibility for flying a drone during a wildfire that collided with and damaged a plane that was sent to help.

Peter Akemann, a former UC Berkeley Ph.D. student and once-prominent video games executive, flew a drone that hit a Super ...