Police: Saboteur Knocked Orlando Radio Stations Off Air
POSTED: Wednesday, October 20, 2004
UPDATED: 7:52 am EDT October 21,
2004
Police in Orlando, Fla., believe an interruption in several radio station transmissions Tuesday night was the result of sabotage, according to Local 6 News.
Investigators said an engineer for Cox Radio discovered someone broke into a transmission tower's breaker box, shut off the power and damaged a back-up generator.
As a result, several radio stations were knocked off the air for about an hour.
An engineer who reported the incident said the person who caused the damage knew exactly what they were doing, according to a police report.
Investigators have no leads on a suspect.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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