A Nebraska teen has actually been billed with 2 felony matters of criminal mischievousness after he was charged of triggering a train to hinder, taping the collision and publishing the video clip on YouTube, according to court documents.
The 17-year-old was butted in Lancaster Region Juvenile Court on Wednesday, however district attorneys have actually submitted a movement to have actually the situation moved to grown-up court.
A detective with BNSF Train stated in court records that the teen signaled authorities to the derailment and asked the detective that arrived what created the collision.
He is charged of damaging a rail and triggering 2 engines and 5 crammed BNSF cars and trucks to leap the imprison Bennet on April 21.
It had not been clear whether the teenager had actually preserved a lawyer, and his moms and dads could not be grabbed remark Thursday.
While the railcars stayed upright, one collapsed right into a vacant coal automobile, triggering $350,000 in damages, a detective for the rail firm stated in court documents.
In the minutes leading up to the collision, the conductor attempted to make an emergency situation quit however lacked time prior to the crash, court documents reveal.
The train conductor informed a BNSF detective that a misaligned button caused the collision which a lock that was expected to be connected to the button was missing out on, the records stated.
BNSF Train runs trains on the rail to provide coal to a nuclear power plant in Nebraska City.
The teen, that reported the derailment to authorities, came close to a detective after the collision and asked what created it. When the detective stated it was unknown, he reacted that “clearly a button was turned the upside-down,” according to court documents.
He informed the detective he was a train lover and revealed him the video clip he had actually fired of the derailment, the documents stated.
Lancaster Region Lawyer Patrick F. Condon decreased to comment.
The teenager refuted trespassing in the location and damaging the button, however the detective mentioned in the records that he understood where the button was and just how it functioned.
Authorities later on found that a tripod had actually been established near the crash website simply 4 mins prior to the train thwarted, court documents reveal.
” In the days adhering to the derailment, a video clip of the derailment was uploaded to YouTube account ZUnit06, which is thought be related to [the teen],” a detective stated in the file. “This account includes many video clips of trains shot in Bennet, NE and various other places in Lancaster Region, NE.”
The detective stated a video clip uploaded April 23 was entitled “Packed BNSF Arbor Collides and Derails In Bennet, NE!”
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