A Colorado cop who put a handcuffed suspect in a car that got hit by a train was convicted of 2 misdemeanors

• A police officer in Colorado left a suspect handcuffed in a car that was hit by a train.
• Jordan Steinke was convicted of reckless endangerment and assault connected to the case.

A police officer who left a woman handcuffed inside a police car that was slammed by a train was convicted of reckless endangerment and assault.

Jordan Steinke is the first of the officers involved in the Sept. 16, 2022, crash to go on trial, according to the Associated Press. The crash left Yareni Rios-Gonzalez seriously injured.

A jury found Steinke guilty of reckless endangerment and assault on Thursday but acquitted her of a third charge of attempted manslaughter. Prosecutors also dropped an additional felony assault charge against Steinke in February.

Officers pulled Rios-Gonzalez over after a report of a road rage incident involving a firearm in Fort Lumpton, Colorado, according to The AP. Rios-Gonzalez stopped her car just past a set of train tracks, and the officers put her in their car parked behind hers on the crossing.

"There's no reasonable doubt that placing a handcuffed person in the back of a patrol car, parked on railroad tracks, creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm by the train," Judge Timothy Kerns said in court Thursday.

Still, Kerns added that Steinke has shown "shock and remorse" for her actions and said he isn't convinced that she knowingly intended to cause Rios-Gonzalez harm, the AP reported.

According to the outlet, Steinke also testified that she did not see the train tracks on the ground when she squatted down to arrest a Rios-Gonzalez — who was kneeling along the tracks after she was ordered out of her pickup truck.

When Weld County Deputy District Attorney Christopher Jewkes pressed Steinke on how she could have missed the train tracks, she answered that she might have seen the tracks, but she "did not perceive them" because she was so focused on the potential threat Rios-Gonzales posed.

"I never in a million years thought a train was going to come plowing through my scene," Steinke said in court.