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Northern Michigan man charged with shooting police drone out of the sky
Updated: Feb. 25, 2025, 10:17 a.m.
TAWAS CITY, MI — A northern Michigan man is charged with shooting a police drone out of the sky during a tense situation in which he allegedly threatened to kill himself and others.
Alexander J. Bessey, 21, is charged with two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and single counts of malicious destruction of police or fire department property, felony firearm, and reckless use of a firearm.
The first two charges are four-year felonies, while a felony firearm conviction mandates a two-year prison sentence consecutive to any related stint. The reckless discharge count is a 90-day misdemeanor.
The charges stem from Michigan State Police troopers responding to Bessey’s Tawas Township home in the 1200 block of McArdle Road at about 5:45 p.m. Feb. 11.
Iosco County Central Dispatch had received a call from Bessey’s father, saying his son wanted to kill himself and anyone who intervened.
The father said Bessey was outside his neighboring residence, firing an automatic rifle.
Police erected a perimeter around the site and observed Bessey firing a rifle and a shotgun into a snowbank and wooded area, according to an affidavit in court records.
“Alexander was erratically and feverishly firing his weapons into the air, through trees/woods, and across the public roadway,” the affidavit states.
Oscoda Township police also responded to the scene and deployed a drone to get a bird’s eye view of the situation.
The drone recorded footage of Bessey continuing to fire guns at random. He eventually pointed a shotgun at the drone and shot it down, the affidavit states.
Not long after, an unarmed Bessey walked into the road with his hands raised and surrendered to police.
Police interviewed Bessey’s father, who said he heard automatic gunfire and texted his son to ask what was going on.
Bessey told his father he was decompressing, that he could shoot his assault rife on his property if he wanted to, and that it was none of his dad’s business.
When Bessey’s father texted him that he and his wife were going to leave the area, Bessey allegedly replied, “You’re not going anywhere,” the affidavit states.
Bessey’s father responded that he would call police, to which Bessey allegedly told him to go ahead and that he would shoot everyone, the affidavit states.
Bessey’s father loaded his own shotgun, turned off lights in his home, and he and his wife barricaded themselves in a rear bedroom.
Bessey’s father lives about 250 yards from his son, the affidavit states. Police executed a search warrant on Bessey’s house.
They seized two .22-caliber rifles, two shotguns, and an RF-15 .223-caliber rifle from the home.
Bessey remains in the Iosco County Jail as of Monday, Feb. 24. He is to appear for a preliminary examination on March 4.
https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2025/02/northern-michigan-man-charged-with-shooting-police-drone-out-of-the-sky.html
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