A New York City teacher was arrested early Friday morning, hours after he allegedly crashed a small quadcopter drone into an empty seating area during a match at the US Open tennis tournament in Queens.

According to the New York Daily News, Daniel Verley, 26, was arrested and charged with “reckless endangerment, reckless operation of a drone and operating a drone outside the prescribed area.”

The newspaper also reported that Verley is a teacher at the Academy of Innovative Technology, a public school in Brooklyn.

The drone flew overhead just before 8:30pm Eastern Time on Thursday evening during a sparsely attended match between Monica Niculescu of Romania and Flavia Pennetta of Italy. The pilot seemingly lost control and the drone went down into an empty section of the stands—there were no injuries.

"A little bit scary, I have to say," the Associated Press quoted Pennetta as saying. "With everything going on in the world ... I thought, 'OK, it's over.' That's how things happen.”

An unnamed United States Tennis Association source told the Daily News that police somehow located the drone’s pilot at “a marina on the opposite side of Citi Field.”

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, drone use is forbidden within five miles of an airport—Louis Armstrong Stadium sits 4.2 miles from LaGuardia Airport.

Back in 2014, the Federal Aviation Administration published Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) No. FDC 4/3621, the first time US flight regulators have moved to criminally punish wayward drone pilots.