A man was arrested on federal charges Monday for allegedly pointing a laser at Marine One, the presidential helicopter carrying President Trump.<\/p>\n
The suspect was identified as Jacob Samuel Winkler, 33, of Washington, D.C. He was charged with pointing a laser beam at an aircraft, which is categorized as a felony with a maximum sentence of five years.<\/p>\n
The aircraft was already flying when someone from the Secret Service saw the suspect. Winkler was allegedly talking to himself, not wearing a shirt, and pointed the red laser pointer in the agent’s face after the agent pointed a flashlight in his direction.<\/p>\n
The same Winkler then pointed the laser pointer at Marine One<\/a> as it was overhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A man was arrested on federal charges Monday for allegedly pointing a laser at Marine One, the presidential helicopter carrying President Trump. The suspect was identified as Jacob Samuel Winkler, 33, of Washington, D.C. He was charged with pointing a laser beam at an aircraft, which is categorized as a felony with a maximum sentence … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}