A Florida man faces felony charges after allegedly vandalizing a decoy Flock camera. The decoy, part of a vandalism sting, was built by a police officer with a personal 3D printer to catch vandals in the act.
\n\n404 Media reports that Evan Meyer was arrested shortly after midnight on Thursday, August 20, 2026, after police say he used his father’s garden shears to knock a Flock Safety camera off a pole and smash it on the ground. The camera was fake. It was part of a decoy operation the Oviedo Police Department had set up in an area where several real Flock cameras had gone missing in July and August.
\n\nAccording to the arrest report, police explained the setup this way: “Several of our Flock Safety cameras were stolen between 7/23/2026 -8/3/2026 out of the Lockwood Blvd. corridor and we replaced them with clone style Flock cameras. These Flock ‘bait’ cameras were made to closely resemble that of real Flock cameras but did not cost the same amount nor collect any data within the device.”
\n\nThe decoys went up the Sunday before the arrest, and officers monitored them overnight through Thursday. One officer built the working replica at home on…
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