Eduardo Moreno, a former train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles, was sentenced to three years in federal prison for intentionally derailing a train and aiming it at a Navy hospital ship.
Moreno was charged for an incident on March 30, 2020, in which he drove a locomotive at high speed, continuing as the train approached the end of the track and intentionally derailed the train near the U.S.
According to an affidavit filed as part of the criminal complaint, Moreno "thought that the Mercy was suspicious and did not believe ‘the ship is what they say it’s for.’" "[Moreno’s] offense was extraordinarily serious, and he used his unique access as a licensed train conductor to derail a multi-ton train toward a government hospital ship whose purpose was to treat vulnerable patients in the midst of a global pandemic," prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum.
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