Moreno told port police that he was suspicious of the Mercy “and believed it had an alternate purpose related to COVID-19 or a government takeover,” the U.S. attorney’s office said, citing court documents.
Train engineer gets 3 years for intentional derailment in L.A.
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He said he figured the crash was a good way to draw attention to the ship, and let people “know what’s going on here.”
Man gets three-year sentence for crashing train over COVID conspiracy theory
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