NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, March 12, 2010

INCIDENTS

Grand Canyon NP

Resident Arrested For Possession Of Child Pornography

On March 6th, law enforcement rangers responded to the Bright Angel Lodge to investigate a report of a found cellular phone with images of child pornography on it. Prior to the arrival of the rangers, the phone's owner, a local resident and registered sexual offender, arrived and collected his phone from the lodge staff. The rangers immediately contacted an on-call special agent with the NPS Investigative Services Branch. A cooperative investigation by the agent and rangers was begun. Several interviews were conducted and later the same day a federal search warrant was served at the man's residence, located in one of the park's concession dormitories. Printed child pornography and multiple electronic items suspected to contain files of child pornography were seized. He was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. He remains in federal custody. [Robert Mullikin, Special Agent in Charge, ISB Central]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS:

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS - Scenic Hudson, a group that has worked since 1963 to protect and restore the Hudson River and its majestic landscapes, has purchased the most important unprotected landscape visible from the park. The move permanently conserves 160 acres directly across the Hudson River from FDR's Springwood estate and Presidential Library.

Washington Office - A memorial service for US Forest Service officer Chris Upton, who was shot and killed last week during a routine patrol of a recreation site on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, will be held tomorrow. A link is provided for more information. Photo.

Independence NHP - Steve Sitarski, who has spent his entire 32-year NPS career at Independence, will be retiring on March 30th. Photo.

Servicewide Training Calendar - A compilation of upcoming training courses offered by the NPS and its partners across the nation. Added to this week's listing are the following - three certified structural firefighter training sessions (Yosemite, Lake Mead and Glen Canyon), an EMT refresher at Canaveral, two housing management courses (Salt Lake City and Anchorage), and two FLETC sessions at Artesia.

To see these and other stories posted on InsideNPS (or NPS Digest, its public version), click on one or the other of the following links (please note that not all stories in the former appear in the latter):

NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index

Non-NPS employees: HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/

NPS serious incident submission standards can be found at the following web site: HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/notify" http://inside.nps.gov/notify

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Prepared by the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, with the support of the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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