BP spill affidavit

In the first crim­in­al charges to emerge from the fed­er­al probe of the Gulf of Mex­ico oil spill, a former en­gin­eer for BP has been ar­res­ted on sus­pi­cion of in­ten­tion­ally des­troy­ing evid­ence in the April 2010 ex­plo­sion on the Deep­wa­ter Ho­ri­zon oil plat­form.