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Former LA Port Engineer Gets 3 Years for Intentional Train Wreck

By City News Service

 

LOS ANGELES—A former locomotive engineer at the Port of Los Angeles was sentenced to three years behind bars on April 13 for intentionally running a train at full speed off the tracks near the Navy hospital ship Mercy, claiming the vessel was docked at the port as part of a possible “government takeover.”

Eduardo Moreno, 46, of San Pedro, was also ordered to pay $755,880 in restitution to Pacific Harbor Line, the railroad company at the port.

Moreno pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of committing a terrorist attack against railroad carriers and mass transportation systems.

 

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