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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 23 October 2017 - 12:08 PM

Lincoln, NE Journal-Star, 10/23/17:

 


 

Armed man got into traveling Amtrak locomotive, stopped train

 

An armed Missouri man was arrested on an Amtrak train passing through southwest Nebraska early Saturday after authorities say he got into the locomotive and pulled the emergency brake.

 

 

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Posted 23 October 2017 - 11:59 PM

St. Louis, MO Post-Dispatch, 10/23/17:

 


 

Armed man from St. Charles arrested after stopping Amtrak train in Nebraska

 

An armed man got into a locomotive on an Amtrak train passing through southwest Nebraska early Saturday and pulled the emergency brake while about 175 passengers were on board, authorities say.

 

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Posted 24 October 2017 - 11:00 AM

KTVI-TV, Fox-2 in St. Louis, MO, 10/24/17:

 


 

Authorities ID passenger suspected of stopping Amtrak train

 

Authorities have identified a passenger suspected of pulling an emergency brake to stop an Amtrak train in Nebraska as a 25-year-old Missouri man.

 

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Posted 26 October 2017 - 12:27 PM

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Passenger describes sudden stop on Amtrak before suspect's arrest

 
 
An armed man was arrested after police say he pulled the brakes on an Amtrak train headed east near Oxford on Saturday.

 
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Posted 01 November 2017 - 08:58 AM

AP via The Dispatch, Clay Center, KS 11/1/17:
 

Man accused of stopping train to get competency evaluation

 

 

OXFORD, Neb. (AP) — A competency evaluation has been ordered for a man accused of pulling an emergency brake to stop an Amtrak train in south-central Nebraska.

 

Court records say the attorney for 25-year-old Taylor Wilson, of St. Charles, Missouri, told a judge Monday that Wilson was incompetent to stand trial. The judge then approved a motion for the evaluation.

 

Wilson remained in Furnas County Jail on Wednesday. His next court date is Nov. 27.

 

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Posted 12 December 2017 - 01:01 PM

KHGI-TV  (Nebraska TV), 12/11/17:

 


 

Man accused of pulling emergency brake on Amtrak train goes to trial

 

 

A man accused of pulling an emergency brake on an Amtrak train in Oxford while armed has been found competent to stand trial.

 

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Posted 09 January 2018 - 09:30 AM

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Man With 'Interest in Killing Black People' Charged With Terrorism After Attempted Train Attack

 

 

 

A man with ties to white supremacist groups has been charged with terrorism after he allegedly tried to derail an Amtrak train, according to newly unsealed court documents.

 

 

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Posted 19 January 2018 - 08:57 AM

Omaha World-Herald, 1/19/18:

Grand jury indicts man accused of trying to derail train in Nebraska

 

 

A Missouri man who has been linked to white supremacists has been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused by authorities of trying to derail an Amtrak passenger train in Nebraska.

 

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Nebraska, Taylor M. Wilson, 25, of St. Charles, Missouri, is charged with attempting to disable a train and attempting to interfere with a locomotive engineer or a railroad conductor.

 



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Posted 06 October 2018 - 04:12 PM

The Lincoln (NE) Journal Star, 10/5/18:

Prosecutor: Missouri man who stopped Amtrak train in Nebraska 'presents a very real and present danger'

 

 

The Missouri man who brought an Amtrak train to a screeching stop in southwest Nebraska last year to “save the train from the black people” got 14 years in federal prison Friday.

 

“An attack on African-Americans is an attack on Americans, period,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Woods told the judge during Taylor Michael Wilson's sentencing hearing.

 

 

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