Jail Is the Next Stop for Flighty Train Thief
A Texas man who wanted to go “wherever the train takes me” was arrested when a brake stymied his efforts to steal a freight train.
Kristopher Huie, 22, clambered aboard the parked Union Pacific Corp. train, said Sheriff Bob Alford of Johnson County, about 45 miles southwest of Dallas.
Huie managed to start the engines but had trouble releasing a brake and radioed Union Pacific dispatchers for help. A passing conductor and engineer, alerted by the radio call, overpowered Huie and held him for the sheriff.
He faces a felony theft charge.
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