LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two Dutch tourists who wanted to take video of Area 51 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespass and illegal parking following their arrests at a different secure U.S. government site in Nevada.
A judge on Monday sentenced Govert Sweep and Ties (TEES’) Granzier to three days in the Nye County jail and fined them $2,280 apiece.
They also surrendered computer and camera equipment and an aerial drone.
In a Nye County sheriff’s office video news release , Sweep and Granzier say they’ll return to the Netherlands after their expected release Thursday.
They were arrested Sept. 10 in a car inside the Nevada National Security Site near Mercury.
That’s more than 20 miles (32.2 kilometers) from Area 51, the focus of events this weekend inspired by a hoax Facebook post inviting people to “see them aliens.”
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