{"id":28210,"date":"2024-02-09T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/02\/09\/homeland-securitys-mayorkas-says-drones-banned-from-super-bowl\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:17:45","slug":"homeland-securitys-mayorkas-says-drones-banned-from-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/leadership\/2024\/02\/09\/homeland-securitys-mayorkas-says-drones-banned-from-super-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security\u2019s Mayorkas says drones banned from Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While police were pursuing and apprehending a man who climbed a Las Vegas Strip landmark, local, federal and NFL officials met with the media on Wednesday to outline hardened security measures and declare the Super Bowl a \u201cno drone zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">League, FBI and Secret Service officials and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said there have not been any \u201cspecific or credible\u201d threats to Sunday\u2019s championship game at Allegiant Stadium. But they said they were looking for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayorkas, in his first public appearance since the U.S. House of Representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mayorkas-border-impeachment-immigration-d5f6a7d91ea725768e27b9b2bc5391a4\">failed in a vote on Tuesday<\/a> to impeach him, cut short a question about that and dismissed as \u201cbaseless\u201d the allegations that led Republicans in Congress to try to force him from the Biden Administration cabinet. They include claims that Mayorkas hasn\u2019t properly enforced immigration laws to secure the U.S. border with Mexico and accusations that he lied in telling Congress that the border is secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m focused on the work,\u201d Mayorkas said, \u201cthat\u2019s what brings me to Las Vegas today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Homeland secretary shared the reason for a seven-minute timeout that paused the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chiefs-ravens-score-afc-championship-2d7d4c43fe8fc614b27bf5fc7f4e94d1\">AFC championship game<\/a> between the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs on Jan 28. He said an unmanned drone aircraft had been detected over Baltimore\u2019s M&amp;T Bank Stadium. Authorities later reported they followed the aircraft and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afc-championship-drone-c5b93485de6e3abcc0d8c17b2b4ca076\">arrested a Pennsylvania man<\/a> on felony charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPlease leave your drones, umbrellas, selfie sticks and weapons of any kind at home,\u201d NFL Chief Security Officer Cathy Lanier told the media on Wednesday. \u201cSuper Bowl is a no-drone zone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karon Ransom, U.S. Secret Service agent in charge in Las Vegas, put the number of federal law enforcement agents in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl and related events at 750. She termed the effort a \u201cwhole of government approach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI Las Vegas office, said his agency was \u201cmonitoring and sharing\u201d with other agencies \u201cand appropriate private-sector partners\u201d what he called \u201cevery scrap of information that indicates a potential threat\u201d from \u201ccriminal actors or a hostile nation-state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis includes threat intelligence gleaned from social media or open source materials, our own databases and our U.S. intelligence community,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill issued a familiar call for people who see something to say something and noted that Las Vegas has hosted a series of recent headline-grabbing events: the Formula One <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/f1-las-vegas-c948161292a80c00190deaf35973ab56\">Las Vegas Grand Prix<\/a> in November; a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/campus-shooting-las-vegas-unlv-55ca455e2d00f1126cc1dbf4cc29139e\">University of Nevada, Las Vegas shooting<\/a> in December; New Year\u2019s Eve fireworks that drew hundreds of thousands of revelers to the Las Vegas Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McMahill, head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, also somberly referred to lessons learned from the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-america-us-news-ap-top-news-las-vegas-shootings-ca9e96dfbeeb40d4a729ef06d48958dd\">deadliest mass shooting<\/a> in modern U.S. history, when a gunman opened fire in October 2017 from windows of a high-rise casino hotel and killed 58 people at an outdoor concert crowd of 20,000 on the Strip. Several other deaths have since been attributed to wounds received that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 65,000 people are expected at Allegiant Stadium for the Super Bowl, and Las Vegas tourism officials estimate the number of hotel guests and visitors in the area will top 330,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnything suspicious, report it,\u201d McMahill said. \u201cLet us do the leg work to determine if the threat is real.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheriff added that while he was at Wednesday\u2019s media event, he was notified that officers were <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/man-climbs-las-vegas-strip-sphere-7e2d0e55d0ecf8f39b7a870b5f003fbd\">pursuing a man who had climbed<\/a> to the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sphere-msg-james-dolan-4e990889823714a58b196aac84468f55\">Las Vegas Sphere.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe know that people are going to test us,\u201d McMahill said from the podium. \u201cWe know people are going to try things. 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