Orange County, Calif. man charged after shooting at helicopter: DOJ

A Southern California man faces a felony charge after prosecutors say he tried to shoot down a Sheriff's Department helicopter after drinking at his birthday party.

The man, Justin Derek Jennings, 39, was charged with attempting to damage, destroy or disable an aircraft, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced in a news release Monday.

The charges date back to March 9, when Jennings was celebrating his birthday, the statement said. He was drinking and became angry, which caused some of his family members to leave. He took a gun out of his safe and fired a magazine's worth of gunfire into the house. Other family members left and called the police, the prosecutor's office continued.