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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MORNING REPORT Friday, April 20, 2012 INCIDENTS Whiskeytown NRA Rangers Apprehend Kidnapping And Murder Suspect Park dispatcher Tracy Lange saw a hitchhiker on Highway 299 on April 12th and asked a ranger to check him out. Ranger Gary Panich contacted the hitchhiker near milepost 10.5 and identified him as one C.M. Ranger Stevon Culver joined Panich as backup. An NCIC check on C.M. revealed that there was a non-extraditable warrant out against him from Colorado. The rangers were about to release C.M. when a HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOLO" BOLO for him suddenly came up in the system, ordering officers “to stop and hold” him for the disappearance of a one-year-old infant from Redding, California. Panich and Culver handcuffed and searched C.M., and Redding Police Department detectives came to the scene and took him into custody. A ranger was sent to the old Whiskeytown Store building to secure a possible crime scene where C.M. had stayed. Redding PD and the Shasta County Sheriff's Office launched a major search for the infant later in the day. A ranger and fire personnel checked the Whiskey Creek shoreline by boat, but found no clues. At 7:30 p.m., the body of the missing infant was found about seven miles east of the park boundary. C.M. has been charged with kidnapping and murder by the Shasta County District Attorney's Office. [Chris Mengel, Acting Chief Ranger] Mojave NP Bags Of Marijuana Found Along Park Road On April 11th, a park maintenance employee found what appeared to be four kitchen bags containing marijuana alongside Kelso-Cima road within the park. A protection ranger responded and found that the bags did contain marijuana - a total of 21.05 pounds. During processing of the contraband, numerous items related to cultivation were found. The county sheriff's office was contacted. It appears possible that, due to interdiction patrols along the highway, the marijuana was thrown out of a vehicle inside park boundaries to avoid discovery by the sheriff's interdiction team. It is unknown at this time if the offender is a locale cultivator or was passing through the park. A joint investigation is underway. [Kirk Gebicke, Supervisory Park Ranger] OTHER NEWS The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/): Office of Communications - National Park Week begins tomorrow and continues through Sunday, April 19th. The theme this year is "Picture Yourself in a National Park." Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP - A year after the bitter struggle over a planned Walmart ended, a new vision for a large area adjoining Wilderness Battlefield has been unveiled. Acadia NP - Nineteen days after her serious car accident, Lynne Dominy, the park's chief of interpretation, has been released from the hospital and is home recovering from her injuries. Servicewide Training Calendar - A compilation of upcoming training courses and conferences across the nation, plus online training. Added to this week's calendar is a park structural fire coordinator workshop at NCTC in West Virginia. * * * * The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced with the support of the Office of the Assistant Director for Information Resources and the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov). --- ### --- |