RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           Ranger Activities Division Information Network

Day/Date:  Friday, March 26, 1993

Broadcast: By 0800 EST

INCIDENTS

92-307 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Follow-up on Search for Felon

D.R.H., the escaped murderer and bank robber who was the subject
of the large-scale manhunt in the park last summer, is scheduled to go on
trial in Coconino County Superior Court in Flagstaff on April 22nd on a
multitude of felony charges, including the attempted murder of four NPS
rangers and an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer.  The four
rangers - Don Miller, Keith Lober, Chris Fors and John Piastuck - recently
received commendations and cash awards from superintendent Bob Chandler for
their actions during the initial pursuit and search for D.R.H.  The four
rangers thwarted an attempted kidnapping of a family of five and rescued two
other hostages D.R.H. had held for nearly two days.  Chandler had this to
say at the award ceremony: "Their quick actions and excellent tactics while
facing gunfire averted what could have been a major human tragedy at Grand
Canyon." [Carl Christensen, RAD/WRO, 3/25]

93-142 - Dinosaur (Colorado/Utah) - ARPA Arrest

In June of 1992, BLM, NPS and local law enforcement officers following up on
some information provided by an informant discovered an excavated
archeological site on federal land near Vernal, Utah.  The persons suspected
of looting the site - W.B. and R.B. of Vernal, Utah - had been
under surveillance for similar depredations in the park and elsewhere on
federal lands in the area.  The informant also told officers that the couple
had removed a cradleboard with the mummified remains of a Fremont Indian
infant from the site, and that he had seen it at their residence.  On March
17th, federal agents arrested the pair for the theft, and they were
subsequently indicted in federal district court for various ARPA violations. 
The remains, which date from around 650 A.D., are the first such found in
the Uintah Basin.  [Dan Moses, DINO, 3/25]

93-143 - Rocky Mountain (Colorado) - Attempted Suicide; Rescue

Early on the morning of March 25th, ranger Doug Ridley responded to a VIP's
report of an apparent suicide at the Alluvial Fan parking lot.  Upon
arrival, Ridley found a vehicle with a hose leading from its exhaust to its
passenger compartment.  The occupant, 19-year-old S.B. of Longmont,
was still moving; Ridley called for an ambulance and, with the assistance of
a passer-by, administered high-flow oxygen to a now combative S.B., who was
in advanced stages of carbon monoxide poisoning.  Drugs found in the vehicle
may have been a contributing factor.  S.B. was taken to a medical center in
Estes Park, then flown to a hyperbaric unit in Denver.  His condition is
stable at this time.  Psychiatric evaluation is underway.  [Fran Gruchy,
Acting CR, 3/25]

93-144 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Attempted Suicide

Ranger Kathy Korte was in the process of making a traffic stop on the
evening of March 18th when a 25-year-old woman drove up and told Korte that
she needed immediate help.  When Korte approached the woman's vehicle, she
found that the driver had a 30/30 rifle between her legs, with the barrel
pointed at her chest.  The driver told Korte that she was attempting to
commit suicide, but could not go through with the plan.  Korte disarmed the
female and placed her in protective custody.  Examination of the rifle
revealed a chambered round and the safety in the off position.  Upon
interviewing the woman, who lives in New Jersey, rangers found that she had
a history of previous suicide attempts and had planned for several weeks to
shoot herself in the park.  Korte reported that she'd seen the woman seated
behind the wheel of her parked vehicle during an earlier patrol of East Rim
Drive.  The woman was placed on a mental health hold and transported by
rangers to a facility in Flagstaff.  [Carl Christensen, RAD/WRO, 3/25]

93-145 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - Drug Arrest

On the morning of March 6th, officers from the Northern Arizona Metro crime
task force contacted rangers and asked them to stop a bus and identify a 38-
year-old male travelling on it to the South Rim.  Fifteen minutes later,
rangers Keith Lober and Brian Smith contacted an individual matching the
man's description, who gave a different name than he'd given Flagstaff
police officers two hours earlier.  Subsequent investigation revealed that
he'd attempted to elude surveillance by Metro and Flagstaff officers by
fleeing to the park.  The man was placed under arrest for providing false
information to a law enforcement officer.  A search of the man's luggage
incident to arrest led to the discovery of a six inch by four inch brick of
cocaine worth between $15,000 and $20,000.  The cocaine was wrapped in
plastic and cayenne pepper.  The man had been transporting the cocaine
across country via an Amtrak train before being stopped in Flagstaff. 
Criminal charges are pending for possession and interstate transportation of
cocaine.  [Carl Christensen, RAD/WRO, 3/25]

93-146 - Kennedy Center (D.C.) - Gas Spill

A vehicle in the center's garage was found to be leaking a substantial
amount of gasoline on the afternoon of March 20th, and city fire units were
summoned.  Gas covered about 200 square feet of the B level; it also seeped
through a crack in the deck and dripped onto a light fixture and the C level
deck.  The area was cordoned off, electrical power was shut off to the
lighting circuit in the area, and all garage exhaust fans were stepped up to
maximum speed.  Fire department personnel treated the spill with a liquid
surfactant to reduce the volatility of the gasoline, then applied a granular
absorbent material.  The vehicle was rolled out the garage by hand and towed
away.  The granular absorbent was allowed to remain in the affected area for
about eight hours, then deposited in a hazmat disposal container for later
transport to an incineration facility.  [Bill Kirby, Assistant Manager,
JOFK, 3/25]

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: No leave or travel scheduled.

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Sisto instructing at managing the
protection function training course (3/23-3/26).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Cook instructing S-230/260/390 (3/15-3/26);
Clark instructing S-490/590 (3/13-3/27). 

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities