A train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles targeted the hospital ship because he thought it was 'suspicious' and wanted to 'wake people up,' federal prosecutors said.
The operator told FBI agents that “he did it out of the desire to ‘wake people up'" and"thought that the U.S.N.S.was suspicious and did not believe ‘the ship is what they say it’s for,'” the US Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said.
A California Highway Patrol officer, who saw the crash and took Moreno into custody after he tried to flee, said the train smashed into a steel barrier, a chain-link fence, slid through a parking lot, then a gravel-filled lot, and crashed into another fence. When the officer apprehended Moreno, he allegedly made a series of"spontaneous statements," prosecutors said in their statement, including, “You only get this chance once. The whole world is watching. I had to. People don’t know what’s going on here. Now they will.”
Video from inside the train's cab shows Moreno inside and holding a lighted flare, prosecutors said. The engineer told authorities that he had not plotted the attack ahead of time and acted alone.No one was injured in the crash, although the train did leak a"substantial amount of oil," officials said.
The Justice Department charged Moreno with one count of train wrecking, which carries a maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
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