wrap your head around this crazy news: Eduardo Moreno, 44, of San Pedro (Long Beach adjacent),a locomotive engineer working last night at the Port of Los Angeles intentionally ran a train off the end of tracks, crashing through a series of barriers, derailing a train at full speed to try to smash into the US Navy Hospital Ship Mercy because of suspicions over it and activities surrounding COVID-19

After he was arrested, Moreno was held overnight and subsequently turned over to FBI agents Wednesday morning. Moreno is expected to make an initial appearance in federal court Wednesday afternoon. Prosecutors allege Moreno ran the train off the end of tracks, and crashed through a series of barriers before coming to rest more than 250 yards from the Mercy in an incident that was captured on video.

A CHP officer who witnessed the crash said he saw the train smash through a barrier at the end of the tracks before driving through several obstacles including a steel barrier, chain-link fence, slide through a parking lot, slide across another lot filled with gravel, and smash into a second chain-link fence," according to the affidavit.

Moreno, who waived his right to speak to an attorney before being interviewed by investigators, admitted in two post-arrest interviews, that he intentionally ran the train off the track because wanted to bring attention to the government's activities regarding COVID-19, and was suspicious of the U.S.N.S. Mercy.

In his first interview with the Los Angeles Port Police, Moreno acknowledged that he "did it," saying that he was suspicious of the Mercy and believing it had an alternate purpose related to COVID-19 or a government takeover, the affidavit states.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/man-tried-to-derail-train-to-wreck-navy-hospital-ship-mercy-over-coronavirus-suspicions-feds-say/2297755/
https://abc7.com/usns-mercy-coronavirus-train-crash-derailment/6069395/
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/train-operator-port-los-angeles-charged-derailing-locomotive-near-us-navy-s-hospital