My understanding is that the drone is controlled from a far remote [military] base. You aren’t going to take out the controller.
I think the “choking” solution is the answer.
Find out what they’re looking for and set up a BUNCH of fakes of that item (in your mother-in-law’s backyard).
You'd be correct where "predator-class" drones are concerned. A lot of military assistance to law enforcement takes the form of providing human technical assistance and selling/lending hardware to police tactical units. Eventually you'll see police forces purchasing their own mini & micro-drones and having the US Army or USAF teaching them how to employ them tactically. I may have been pre-mature in addressing the latter, but only by a few years I think. Those low-flying (small) drones will most likely be controlled by a mobile ground unit.
In Bosnia, the Serbs used broken-down tanks and trucks as bait. They would drag them into a field from the woods on a foggy night, and build a wood fire inside the engine space, for a heat sig, plus set up a microwave, radio etc inside.
We dropped million-dollar ordnance onto old piles of junk, over and over.