LOS ANGELES — The former Pacific Harbor Line engineer who intentionally derailed his train at the Port of Los Angeles in 2020 was sentenced this week to three years in prison, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Eduardo Moreno, 46, had pleaded guilty in Decmeber to committing a terrorist attack and other violence against railroad carriers and mass transportation systems for the March 31, 2020, incident when he ran his train off the track at high speed [see “Engineer pleads guilty …,” Trains News Wire, Dec. 17, 2021].
At the time of his arrest, Moreno told police he had acted because he believed the U.S. hospital ship Mercy, docked in the harbor at the time, was part of a government conspiracy and wanted to bring attention to the situation.
Mr. Mulligan,
You are one of the very few people online who understand what the ships were used for. I’ve seen numerous ignorant rants about this.
Sadly, the Comfort, Central Park site and others like this, saw minimal use since the need was for COVID patients, while non-COVID patients frequently could not get needed surgery or treatment. My guess is that there was no practical way to get patients to the sites or ship in most cases, and ER’s were badly overcrowded, thus eliminating a possible pathway. I lost a family member from this, in an ER where the staff was too busy to get patients the treatment they needed. Not their fault, but very painful.
I’d like to think that if we have another bad surge, or a new pandemic, that we would be better prepared, but I doubt it.
Actually, both Hospital Ships sailed to bolster civilian hospitals, USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) on the West Coast and USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) on the East Coast. The ships handled regular patients while the shore-based hospitals handled COVID patients.
To Mr.Thompson. May I remind you that the very idea of activating the hospital ships to fight Covid was put forth by the President you obviously have so much anger towards. No Republican that I know of cheered on the attempt of this lunatic to harm the ship at port. Chris, your agenda is showing. You’re not kidding anyone.
Mr Moreno would be lucky finding a job operating a miniature amusement park train when he finishes his sentence.
Mr Moreno would be lucky to find a job operating an
Mr. Thompson – What in hell are YOU spewing, before I conclude that YOU are a brainwashed nutcake buying into the CURRENT idiocy? What foul deeds were afoot, according to those who voted for Hillary, when a US Navy hospital ship was deployed to handle an anticipated Covid surge?
Mr. Pins, By the engineers own account he believed that the hospital ship must have been involved in some type conspiracy. And who were the perpetrators of all the lunatic conspiracy theories having to do with Covid and also the Presidential election. That would be out previous Republican administration led by their orange God. If you can’t see the connection between the two then I may have to conclude that YOU sir are a member of the nut cake society also.
Ok, Forrest Gump was right. We will agree to disagree.
I couldn’t have said it better.
Those who voted for Hillary tended not to be the ones who thought a hospital ship assigned to support Covid care was part of a conspiracy.
Glad he’s going to prison. Another brainwashed nut cake who bought into the idiocy our previous administration spewed and continues to spew for all that will listen.
Qu’est-ce on dis? Cella est fou, tres fou.
Something like that.
Anyway, my French, poor and wretched as it is, makes more sense than the above post.
Hard to tell which is worse: Your French, or what you were trying to say in it.