FRESNO - Today Carlos Villa-Lozano, 31, and Paulina Silva Aguilar, 33, both of Fresno, Calif., entered guilty pleas to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a California Highway Patrol aircraft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
According to their plea agreements, on July 22, 2018, both Villa-Lozano and Silva used a dangerously bright green laser pointer, a Model 301, to strike a CHP fixed wing aircraft approximately 12 times. The laser strikes caused the CHP airmen to experience temporary blindness and disorientation. Villa-Lozano obstructed justice by materially misrepresenting to the FBI the nature of his involvement in the crime.