The high-tech hunt ended an hours-long manhunt for a suspected wanted on suspicion of felony domestic violence.
Adam Armbruster, 29, was arrested Sunday after deputies, K9 teams, drones and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team tracked him to a barn, where he had burrowedInvestigators said they determined the woman had been assaulted in a domestic violence attack, but the suspect had fled before law enforcement arrived.
Investigators ultimately concluded Armbruster was likely hiding close to home, either on his own property or in outbuildings on a neighboring parcel. SET officers joined the operation Sunday morning, clearing the suspect’s residence before turning their attention to the neighboring property. Just before 2 p.m. Sunday, a drone flying over the area spotted Armbruster concealed inside a giant haystack in a barn.
Video released by the sheriff’s office shows the drone locking onto the hiding place before the suspect, apparently realizing the game was over, waved at the aircraft, climbed down from the hay and surrendered without incident.
“That drone pilot is an absolute surgeon with that machine. Phenomenal operator,” one commenter wrote. Armbruster was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence and felony assault with a deadly weapon. The sheriff’s office blurred the suspect’s face in the released video in accordance with California’s AB 1475, which restricts law enforcement agencies from publicly releasing booking or arrest photographs except under limited circumstances established by state law. Instagram/@placer_sheriff
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