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  "id": "boston-logan-drone-police-case-2024-12-14",
  "title": "Police drone report near Logan Airport leads to arrests and contested charges",
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  "date": "2024-12-14",
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  "summary": "Boston Police arrested two people on 14 December 2024 following a reported drone operation near Logan Airport airspace. They pleaded not guilty to trespassing charges at the subsequent court appearance.",
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  "evidence": "The prosecutor’s press release documents the official charges and relays the police detection/recovery account. WBUR separately reports the court appearance and defence counsel’s building-photography explanation. The flight allegations share the police origin; the defence account disputes the hazardous-flight framing. No technical flight record independently verified here.",
  "unknown": "No final judgment or subsequent case-specific disposition established in the sources reviewed. Not-guilty pleas are not acquittals; arrests are not convictions. No drone position, flight path, height, private-person name or inferred link to the wider New Jersey wave is included.",
  "attribution": "Two unnamed individuals faced trespassing, breaking-and-entering and municipal-ordinance charges according to the official prosecutor account. They pleaded not guilty. No conviction, hostile actor or proven drone-endangerment offence is established.",
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   "note": "Official aggregate claims, not independently verified kills. Parts are included only when explicitly sourced and sum to the reported total. Catalogue countermeasures are not incident evidence.",
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  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/boston-logan-drone-police-case-2024-12-14/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Police drone report near Logan Airport leads to arrests and contested charges”, dossier boston-logan-drone-police-case-2024-12-14, revision 1, updated 2026-10-15. https://droneincidents.com/incident/boston-logan-drone-police-case-2024-12-14/",
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