Teenager, 17, 'deliberately causes train derailment to post video of the carnage' to YouTube

A teen is accused of deliberately causing a train derailment successful Nebraska to grounds it and station it to YouTube.

The 17-year-old, who has not been identified because he is simply a minor, had his cellphone and a 4k integer recorder confiscated by an interrogator for BNSF Railway connected July 8 successful relationship pinch nan derailment months earlier, Fox Nebraska reports.

He had allegedly told investigators astatine nan segment of nan April 21 derailment that he recorded nan clang successful Bennet, successful which 2 locomotives and 5 fully-loaded ember trains veered disconnected nan tracks but remained upright.

They past struck an quiet ember car that was parked astatine nan siding earlier coming to a rest, according to an affidavit obtained by Fox Nebraska. 

A train conductor told an interrogator for nan railroad institution successful nan aftermath that his train was walking eastbound and approaching a crossing erstwhile he noticed that a move was misaligned.

The move caused nan train to veer onto an manufacture way adjacent to a atom elevator. 

The conductor said he tried to make an emergency stop, but it did not activate earlier reaching nan move spot and that caused nan train to crash.

The interrogator later recovered that a padlock that was expected to beryllium attached to nan move was missing - indicating that it had been tampered with, KOLN reports. 

Meanwhile, nan teen showed up astatine nan segment of nan clang and asked astir nan derailment - noting that he had recorded nan clang connected his phone.

Then, erstwhile authorities said they did not cognize nan origin of nan derailment, nan affidavit says, nan boy replied, 'Obviously, a move was flipped nan incorrect way.'

Investigators besides opportunity nan teen's video - which was later posted to a YouTube relationship believed to beryllium to nan boy - showed nan segment before, during and aft nan crash. 

The boy denied trespassing and tampering pinch nan switch, but nan interrogator connected nan segment noted he knew wherever it was and really it worked.

Three days aft nan derailment, nan BNSF interrogator obtained surveillance footage showing a 1996 Buick Park Avenue successful nan area, and nan teen stepping connected nan southbound extremity of nan tracks toward nan move pinch a tripod, nan affidavit says.

He was later recorded returning to his conveyance aft nan derailment caused astir $350,000 successful damages to BNSF Railway and nan Omaha Public Power District, which ain nan tracks that are utilized to proviso ember to an OPPD works successful Nebraska City.   

The teen has now been charged of criminal mischief complete $5,000, KOLN reports.

But Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon said nan boy's not successful constabulary custody.

He noted that his agency will now record a mobility to transportation nan lawsuit to an big court.