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		</div><p>A teacher has been arrested for allegedly crashing a drone into an empty section of seats at the US Open tennis tournament.</p>
<p>Police said 26-year-old Daniel Verley faces charges of reckless endangerment and operating a drone in a New York City public park outside a prescribed area.</p>
<p>The black device buzzed diagonally across the Louis Armstrong Stadium near the end of a second-round match that 26th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy won 6-1, 6-4 over Monica Niculescu of Romania.</p>
<p>Pennetta said she heard the drone fly by and was not sure what it was, though her initial reaction, she said afterwards, was that it might have been a bomb.</p>
<p>“A little bit scary, I have to say,” Pennetta said.</p>
<p>“With everything going on in the world … I thought, OK, it’s over. That’s how things happen.”</p>
<p>She said neither the umpire nor tournament officials told her that it was a drone.</p>
<p>It broke into pieces upon landing, and the match was only briefly interrupted between points while police and fire department personnel went to look at it.</p>
<p>Pennetta said: “The chair umpire just wanted to wait for an OK from the police to be able to continue, even if, truthfully, I don’t think even they knew what it was.”</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image39.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image39.jpg" alt="Police, U.S. Open" width="600" height="817" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-79185" /></a></p>
<p>She said her coach and physical therapist were sitting in the opposite end of the stadium from where the drone crashed and they told her later they were afraid, too.</p>
<p>“All of these (security measures), and then it comes in from above,” Pennetta said.</p>
<p>“If there had been spectators, it would have hit them and done a lot of damage,” Pennetta said.</p>
<p>The incident happened a little before 8.30pm local time in the stadium, which has a seating capacity of about 10,000.</p>
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