YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Reports said a man under investigation Thursday evening for shining at an Ohio State Highway Patrol helicopter told officers he was using the laser to help “wrangle” his cats.
Reports said the crew notified city police and troopers working special patrols about 9:35 p.m. that someone in the area of Bennington Avenue and McGuffey Road was pointing a laser at the helicopter.
The helicopter managed to track the laser to a home in the 1300 block of Bennington Avenue and told police it was being used on the back porch…