A police investigation has concluded that an unknown substance a suspected drone was allegedly dropping on homes in a small Ontario town was just bird poop.
The Waterloo Regional Police Service says its probe into the “suspicious drone activity” has wrapped up with no criminal charges.
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Police said in August they were investigating harassment and mischief involving a drone after receiving multiple complaints of “harassing behaviour” and property damage in Ayr, a community in the Township of North Dumfries.
Investigators said at the time that they believed a first-person view drone flew over a residential area on several nighttime occasions and dropped the unknown substance on houses, vehicles and properties.
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Police say the University of Guelph assisted with the resulting investigation.
They determined the substance was a heron’s feces and there had been no criminal activity.
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