Ex-BP engineer charged with destroying Deepwater evidence

An ex-BP engineer has been charged with destroying evidence tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wed, 25 Apr, 2012 - 08:31

An ex-BP engineer has been charged with destroying evidence tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fifty-year -old drilling engineer Kurt Mix has been charged with two criminal counts of obstruction of justice for trying to destroy hundreds of text messages on his iPhone that related to the incident.

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