ND Cow Thief is First Arrested & Jailed with Help of Drone

North Dakota has been first in a lot of categories of late and now we can claim another title: We're the first state to have a man arrested and jailed with the help of a drone.

It all started back in 2011, when police attempted to arrest farmer Rodney Brossart over his failure to return three stray cows that had ventured onto his property.

Here's where the drone comes into play, according to Forbes.com:

After Brossart was arrested, an armed standoff ensued between his three sons and a SWAT team. His sons were located by a border-surveillance Predator borrowed from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which enabled local police to safely apprehend them, according to local newspapers.

Brossart was sentenced to three years in prison, almost all of which has been suspended.

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