A woman filed a lawsuit against a Platteville sergeant and two Fort Lupton officers as well as both police departments who arrested her and placed her in a patrol car that was then hit by a train.
Yareni Rios was hurt in September when she was hit by a train while handcuffed in a police cruiser in a Colorado town. She alleges negligent, reckless behavior.
As it turns out, the officer responsible for parking on the train tracks that later resulted in the injury of a detained woman has a very poor police record: