As firefighters struggled to contain the devastating Palisades Fire in Los Angeles in early January, someone wanted a bird's eye view, and ended up hitting a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft with their DJI Mini 3 Pro drone. That someone has now been identified as Peter Tripp Akemann—and both SF Gate and The Hollywood Reporter have identified him as the same Peter T Akemann who in the '90s co-founded Treyarch, the game developer that went on to become Activision's every-other-year Call of Duty studio (or every few years, these days).
The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced on Friday that Akemann has agreed to plead guilty to "one count of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft," which carries a maximum prison sentence of one year. Video of Akemann captured outside the courthouse by news media matches the Treyarch co-founder's appearance.
