Posted:
Apr 24, 2012 1:15 PM EDT
Updated:
Apr 24, 2012 6:15 PM EDT
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal
prosecutors brought the first criminal charges Tuesday in the Gulf oil
spill, accusing a former BP engineer of deleting more than 300 text
messages that indicated the blown-out well was spewing far more crude
than the company was telling the public at the time.
Two years and four days
after the drilling-rig explosion that set off the worst offshore oil
spill in U.S. history, Kurt Mix, 50, of Katy, Texas, was arrested and
charged with two counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly
destroying evidence.
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