CityDroneWatch
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  2. New Mexico
  3. Las Cruces
  4. May 2026
  5. 18

Las Cruces, New Mexico · one day

Monday 18 May 2026

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

13

drone flights over Las Cruces that day.

7:56 am

first takeoff; the last was at 11:19 pm.

12 min

median flight. Half were shorter.

Las Cruces police drones flew 13 times on Monday 18 May 2026, the first at 7:56 am and the last at 11:19 pm MDT, by Las Cruces Police Department's published record.

13 drawable flights of 13. 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. Other85%
  2. Not stated8%
  3. Call for service8%

Flights, in order

13 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
7:56 amOther86 minLCPD-260
8:12 amOther10 minLCPD-260
10:21 amNot stated6 minLCPD-260
11:22 amOther12 minLCPD-260
11:42 amCall for service8 minLCPD-260
12:14 pmOther27 minLCPD-260
12:35 pmOther27 minLCPD-260
4:26 pmOther29 minLCPD-260
6:07 pmOther31 minLCPD-260
6:42 pmOther11 minLCPD-260
8:26 pmOther10 minLCPD-260
10:12 pmOther7 minLCPD-260
11:19 pmOther13 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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