A North Dakota family has been caught stealing 6 cows via the use of a $154 million MQ-9 Predator B drone. It was "on loan" to local cops from the US military. The thieves: a North Dakota family named Brossart. Apparently they were so dangerous that the local sheriff needed a Predator drone to take them down. The Brossart's alleged crime? They wouldn't give back 3 cows and their calves that wandered onto their 3,000-acre farm this summer.
The Predator is the type used by the CIA to track down and assassinate terrorists and militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Now local police are using them to take down Americans in their own backyards.
Does this violate the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. § 1385)? That's the United States federal law that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) was to limit the powers of local governments and law enforcement agencies from using federal military personnel to enforce the laws of the land.
Here's the link to the story on the Predator Drone take-down of the cow thieves.
And here's a link to wikipedia re the Posse Comitatus Act.
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