UAS operator Gene Robinson was back in action again recently helping police in a search in once hidden areas for a missing Indiana University student.
“It is a little bit more sophisticated than your typical radio-controlled aircraft,” said Gene Robinson. In the ten minutes the drone was flying Monday, investigators took 50 pictures that would not have been otherwise available from an abandoned limestone quarry 10 miles south of Bloomington. Until today, that had been a blind spot for search crews.
“Typically, we are brought in when all other resources are exhausted,” said Robinson. Robinson is one of a handful of professional searchers that have been called in to help find 20-year-old Lauren Spierer. Robinson says he has been on thousands of searches and found a handful of people. Anxious to get him to working on the Spierer case, Robinson was given a map and sent out the door.
“If we found anything of note, we’ll get GPS coordinates of that particular image, that particular target and we can send a ground team straight to it,” he said.
Source: WTHR Indianapolis