2 Las Vegas men face up to 5 years in prison, accused of aiming laser pointer at police helicopter 2%
By Trevor Squire30%
8/3/2026, 5:15:19 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, with Recency Bias as the most egregious example at 10.6% saturation with 21 hits. Analysis detected 33 faulty-reasoning hits from 198 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 8.3% and a BS Rank of 2% (25,792 of 26,303 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.10% of the article peer group.
Two Las Vegas men in separate cases were indicted on charges for aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
The Department of Justice said in a release that James Bodie Moore III and Jason Lamars Lee both appeared in court Monday and face up to five years in prison if convicted.
Moore is accused of aiming a beam of a laser pointer multiples at and in the flight path of a Metropolitan Police Department helicopter on April 10, the release said.
Lee faces similiar accusations of aiming the beam of a laser pointer “two times” at and in the flight path of a Metro helicopter on June 7.
Both men have jury trials scheduled for September.
Under the “FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012,” pointing a laser at an aircraft is a federal crime.
Another Las Vegas man was sent to prison for nine months for pointing a laser at a police helicopter last Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration said pilots reported 10,993 laser strikes in 2025.
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