NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT


To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Thursday, April 13, 2000

ALMANAC

On this date in 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the 
Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., on the 200th 
anniversary of Jefferson's birth.

INCIDENTS

00-138 - Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD) - Kidnapping and Rape

Park Police officers responded to remote area of the Agricultural 
Research Center in Beltsville to investigate the abduction and rape of 
a 17-year-old girl just before 11 p.m. on April 4th. She had been 
abducted from her house in Landover, then taken to a wooded area of 
the center off Springfield Road east of the parkway and sexually 
assaulted by a known assailant. She was able to get away by gaining 
access to his car and driving away. The suspect, 26-year-old D.M. 
of Washington, was arrested and charged in federal district 
court with rape, kidnapping and assault. [Sgt. R. MacLean, USPP, NCR, 
4/10]

00-139 - Saguaro NP (AZ) - Illegal Immigrants

Since the beginning of the year, rangers have arrested more than 55 
illegal aliens in six separate incidents in the Tucson Mountain 
District. Each incident began as a traffic stop for speeding but 
culminated in the discovery of illegal immigrants hidden in the 
vehicles. The drivers had been paid to transport the aliens from the 
border to points to the north. Although the border is 60 miles south 
of the park, smugglers are using park roads (and other local roads) to 
avoid being detected within city limits. According to the Border 
Patrol, the Tucson sector continues to lead the country in 
apprehensions of illegal aliens with more than a thousand arrests 
weekly. [Robert E. Stinson, ACR, SAGU, 4/11]

00-140 - Cuyahoga Valley NRA (OH) - Search; Possible Suicide

On the evening of April 3rd, rangers checked a vehicle parked in the 
Brandywine Falls parking area at closing time and learned from family 
members that the owner was depressed and had left suicide notes with 
them over the previous two weeks. Rangers and county deputies began a 
search of the area. Heavy rain and fog made footing and visibility on 
the steep trails difficult. No sign of the man was found and the 
search was suspended at 11 p.m. The search resumed the following 
morning; participating were six rangers, local officers and deputies, 
and three dog teams. Clothing and other items belonging to the victim 
were found along a stream under a bridge, but efforts to find him 
again proved fruitless and the search was suspended in the evening. 
Water levels in the creek fell about a foot overnight, and the 
victim's body was found the next day in a small feeder stream about 
100 yards downstream from the bridge where his clothes had been found. 
[Mosie Welch, DR, CUVA, 4/11]

00-141 - Rock Creek Park (DC) - Drug Arrests

On March 29th, Park Police officers executed a search warrant at a 
residence in Washington. They arrested three people on drug charges 
and seized 122 grams of suspected crack cocaine, 26 grams of 
marijuana, two grams of cocaine, miscellaneous drug paraphernalia, and 
$8,400 in cash. [Sgt. R. MacLean, USPP, NCR, 4/10]

CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No submissions.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

No submissions.

MEMORANDA

No submissions.

PARKS AND PEOPLE

No submissions.

FOOTNOTE

Yesterday's report on the pursuit and manhunt at Saguaro NP (00-135) 
erroneously reported that the FBI is leading the investigation in the 
case. It should have read that the NPS and FBI are assisting the Pima 
County Sheriff's Office in its investigation.

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