NEW ORLEANS – The Justice Department says the first criminal charges in the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been filed against a former BP engineer who allegedly destroyed evidence.

Kurt Mix, of Katy, Texas was arrested on charges of intentionally destroying evidence. He faces two counts of obstruction of justice.

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, killing 11 men and spewing 200 million gallons of oil.

The Justice Department says the 50-year-old Mix is accused of deleting a string of 200 text messages with a BP supervisor in October 2010 that involved internal BP information about how efforts to cap the well were failing.

BP officials did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment..

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/24/feds-make-first-arrest-in-bp-oil-spill-case/#ixzz1syq5xPag

Damn, I was hoping the name I was going to read would be Barack Obama.

Let's put a bounty on his head.

If someone did that I am sure the Secret Service would have something to say about it..............

They're too busy banging Columbian hookers on taxpayer dollars...

Sad but true. I honestly can't believe everyone from the White House staff's hands are clean either though.