Overview

• Anthony Tyler Mitchell, 39, was booked on suspicion of felony malicious injury to property, burglary and damaging critical infrastructure after tampering with a NextGen Live radar at a CBS affiliate in northeast Oklahoma City.
• Oklahoma City Police say investigators have found no definitive evidence tying Mitchell’s actions to far-right militia group Veterans on Patrol.
• NOAA and local law enforcement continue to monitor threats against the nationwide NEXRAD network of more than 160 stations and have stepped up site protections.
• NOAA engineer Sebastian Torres and other experts affirm that weather radars serve only to detect atmospheric conditions and cannot influence or control weather.
• Veterans on Patrol, founded in 2015 as a border vigilante group, has shifted focus to conspiracy-driven campaigns targeting meteorological infrastructure with baseless weather-control claims.