Drug driving Hazmat!

A Union Pacific train engineer facing a reckless endangerment charge for allegedly driving a 16,000-ton train loaded with hazardous materials through eastern Wyoming toward Cheyenne has been in a mental health facility since bonding out of jail.  Along with reckless endangering, Kristopher Richards, 47, also was charged with being under the influence of a controlled substance and interference with a peace officer, all misdemeanours. When authorities finally got Richards to stop the train before it rolled into the Cheyenne Depot, deputies found him to be “extremely impaired,” Sheriff Brian Kozak said at the time. “The conductor noticed the engineer was in no condition to operate the train,” he said, adding that Richards was acting “violent and erratic.”