A California man was sentenced on Monday after he was caught red handed last year pointing a laser at flying aircraft.
A 19-year-old man of North Hollywood will now serve 30 months in federal prison, the L.A. Times reports. Last March, Adam Gardenhire repeatedly shined the laser directly at a private and police aircraft.
Pilots attempting to land a passenger plane said they had vision problems because of the lasers. Gardenhire pleaded guilty in October to the charges of a felony count of aiming a laser beam at an aircraft.
Later, the man used the laser to bother a police helicopter that was responding to the first incident of the landing private jet. The pilot of the helicopter was not affected by the laser because he was wearing protective eye wear.
President Barack Obama signed the laser law in 2012; this is its second case. The law makes aiming a laser at an aircraft, or the flight path of an aircraft, a federal crime. Those who violate this measure can be fined or imprisoned for up to five years.
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