[Music] How far away is 56? Now it's driving it's about two blocks from Coors. Yeah, I'm catching up to her now. I don't know if that's it. I know it is. I don't know I'm saying I don't know if it is. Oh, where is It's uh turning into the Is it a gas station? What is that? It's turning into a shopping center right now. Left It's going It went It went left. Yeah, it's heading north. Now it's turning into this McDonald's >> parking lot right here, right beneath us. Metro on ground. Can we get the units to uh It's going to be Osuna or sorry, Quail. Quail and Coors. Wait, I laser strike blue laser. We're going to be on the vehicle. It's currently in the McDonald's uh at that intersection. It is It is going through the drive-thru. Yep, I've got it. Got it on the camera? Yeah, I've got it here. I'll look away. from Lanier on Coors. Still shining the laser? No. Okay. What's up, brother? [Applause] Same old, dude. Hello, deputy marshal's office. Hi. All right, I'll get it. Uh so, what do you got? Do you have an ID or anything? I don't have it on me, but I can give you my information. Okay. How old are you? I'm 25. What's your date of First name? How do you spell that? L A N E Y? Yes. What's your last name? McDonald with the MC. D O N A L D? I'm sorry, I was playing with the laser and >> It's No, it's not No, sorry. Give me your Give me the laser. Laney Mc laser. All right, can you do me a favor step out of the car, please? Come around this way real quick. Come on, can you come over here with me, please? All right. Um obviously you're not in handcuffs or anything like that, but I'm uh going to just read you your rights, okay? Okay. Am I in trouble? Uh you potentially could be, yeah. I'll explain everything to you in a sec. Come over this way with me. Oh my god. All right. [Music] Uh so, you said Let me just make sure I got your information right. Okay. Uh Laney McDonald's? How How old are you? 25. >> 25. All right. So, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to talk to an attorney for advice before we ask you any questions and have an attorney with you during questioning. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you by the state of New Mexico free of charge for any questioning if you wish. If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present, you will still have the right to stop answering anytime. You also have the right to stop answering anytime and talk to an attorney. Uh do you understand these rights I've explained to you? Yes. Okay. Having these rights reminded you want to talk to me or I want to talk to you about I have some questions. Huh? What's that? I have some questions. You want to answer my questions? >> Sure. Yeah? Yeah. All right. So, what was going on with the laser? You were >> I was just playing with it. I was just putting it in the air. You were putting it in the air? Just playing or like flashing it around. Flashing it around, okay. >> Yeah. So, um did you like point it at the helicopter or anything? No. Okay. Well, cuz you see the helicopter right there? Yeah. It's a police helicopter. That's the sheriff's >> I didn't point it at it. I know, but they they saw that you did point it at them though because it hit them. Oh, it did? Yes. I didn't mean to point it at >> So, that that's a federal crime. Um and so basically the reason why it is a crime is because if you shine the light at them and it causes blindness to them, they can crash the helicopter. Okay. Uh you know what I mean? So, it's super they it's they take it very, very seriously. >> I Um so, you may I'm not saying you're going to go to jail today, but what I'm going to do I'm going to write a report on this incident tonight. >> Okay. I'm going to say that I talked to you. Um it might have been a mistake, right? >> Yeah. And then this that report gets forwarded over to um um a federal entity and then they're the ones who decide whether or not they want to do anything, okay? Okay. But it is very serious. Like I I didn't want you to say >> didn't even realize it. Yeah. What it I was scared when like this pulled up cuz I didn't know what I And you said you're I'm what? Yeah. Okay. And it goes to the F A F A A, right? It gets forwarded. I'll stay with you. Thank you. Eric, will you guys want to watch her real quick? Can you guys watch her? Okay. So again, you're being charged with aggravated assault on a PO, okay? Um you said you were pointing it at the stars because it's a star laser. >> Yeah. And you happened to see the helicopter, but you didn't think you were that close to it. Is that correct? >> That's correct. Okay. So, when you saw the helicopter, did you like turn it off? Did you keep pointing it? Did you keep rotating it? Like what what did you do? >> I turned it off. Okay. So, thank you, brother. So again, like I said, you're going to be charged with aggravated assault on a PO tonight cuz again, those are pilots. If you strike them in the eye, they could crash the helicopter and that's zero tolerance, okay? You are how old? 25. You're 25 years old. You're in a bill. Right. Plain white Good job. Okay. So, again, your husband Is your husband? My um no, my fiance. This is Is that Is that your guys' kid together? Yes. That is your kid together? So, he's daddy? Okay, cool. Just got to make sure. Step on over here. [Music] Go ahead and have a seat. Can you help me? Okay, do you have anything on you? No. Anything in your bra? No. Anything inside your purse and cuz you're going to go through a body scanner. Okay. And if you go through the scanner and they find something on you, they'll obviously charge you for Yes, for taking stuff into a jail. >> no problem. Okay. I just want to make sure I give everyone the fair warning before we go. Okay. I'm sorry again, I didn't realize but I understand. That's something definitely not to mess around with Yeah. when it comes to laser striking an airplane or a helicopter, okay? Thank you. Yes, sir. Uh It's like by your water bottle. I told her to put it in the thing so it doesn't fall off. Okay. Sorry, dude. No, you're good, dude. I I I just didn't know. Yeah, they they called me and Okay. They uh obviously went that route, so. Yeah, she's They said that she was clearly outside of the vehicle pointing at them, struck them, and then got back in the vehicle. Was she saying anything that you know that you're not supposed She said that she saw the helicopter. It's a star pointer, if you want to call it, but she was like rotating it and then she happened to see the helicopter in the air at the same time and it was like, down. That's what she said she did. She's saying otherwise. So, why are they Why I guess it's a conversation to have off camera. Yeah, I don't know why they're going this route. I'm just doing what I'm told, brother. It's coming from a sergeant. Hey, Lil. Yeah, if you don't mind, please. Yeah, they they said they'll write soaps. All righty, sir. So, this is your daughter? Yes. Uh she's my my stepdaughter. She's her daughter. Okay. It's It's her daughter, but she said you guys are together, so you're obviously good to take care of her, right? Well, what's going on? She's getting arrested for aggravated assault on a police officer. Okay. A laser strike, especially that high-power laser towards a police helicopter, is nothing to fool around with. Okay?