New York City teacher arrested hours after drone crash at US Open

A New York City teacher was arrested early Friday morning, hours after he allegedly crashed a small quadcopter drone into an empty seating area during a match at the US Open tennis tournament in Queens.

According to the New York Daily News, Daniel Verley, 26, was arrested and charged with “reckless endangerment, reckless operation of a drone and operating a drone outside the prescribed area.”

The newspaper also reported that Verley is a teacher at the Academy of Innovative Technology, a public school in Brooklyn.