SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) _ A Hernando County man has been arrested and charged with pointing a laser light at a sheriff's office helicopter.
The sheriff's office reports that the helicopter was responding to a call near Weeki Wachee Village the night of Sept. 17 when the pilot was briefly blinded by a green light.
The pilot and co-pilot managed to track the source of the light and reported it to deputies on the ground. The deputies went to the Spring Hill home of 23-year-old Louis Carmine Amalfitano and questioned him.
Authorities spent a week trying to determine whether they should charge Amalfitano under federal or state law. They eventually settled on state, and he was picked up on a warrant Monday.
Amalfitano was charged with illegal use of a laser light. He was being held on $500 bail.
Pictured: Louis Carmine Amalfitano
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