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  2. New Mexico
  3. Las Cruces
  4. May 2026
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Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Monday 4 May 2026

23 drone flights from Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

23

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

2:37 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:31 pm.

14 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 23 times on Monday 4 May 2026, the first at 2:37 am and the last at 11:31 pm MDT, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

23 drawable flights of 23. Each path is the whole flight, simplified; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose is drawn as an area.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area

Hour by hour

Takeoffs by hour, MDT.

12a1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a10a11a12p1p2p3p4p5p6p7p8p9p10p11p

Why, in the agency's words

  1. Not stated48%
  2. Other43%
  3. Traffic and crashes4%
  4. Call for service4%

Flights, in order

23 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.

Takeoff (MDT)PurposeAirborneFlight
2:37 amOther28 minLCPD-260
3:25 amOther10 minLCPD-260
6:55 amOther28 minLCPD-260
7:18 amOther5 minLCPD-260
8:43 amTraffic and crashes27 minLCPD-260
9:02 amOther8 minLCPD-260
9:34 amNot stated54 sLCPD-260
9:36 amNot stated19 minLCPD-260
9:56 amNot stated21 minLCPD-260
10:19 amNot stated10 minLCPD-260
10:30 amCall for service15 minLCPD-260
10:42 amNot stated1 min 48 sLCPD-260
12:13 pmNot stated13 minLCPD-260
12:43 pmOther22 minLCPD-260
1:25 pmOther14 minLCPD-260
2:19 pmNot stated14 minLCPD-260
2:40 pmNot stated10 minLCPD-260
3:20 pmNot stated4 minLCPD-260
4:45 pmNot stated8 minLCPD-260
6:58 pmNot stated1 min 06 sLCPD-260
7:04 pmOther29 minLCPD-260
7:28 pmOther29 minLCPD-260
11:31 pmOther18 minLCPD-260

How this page is made

  • Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
  • The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
  • Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
  • Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
  • Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
  • A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.

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