NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                               MORNING REPORT

To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:   Wednesday, December 16, 1998

INCIDENTS

98-754 - Zion NP (UT) - Follow-up: Death of Employee

Condolences to the family of Roy James Williams, 53, who died on December
9th, may be sent to D.W., P.O. Box 311, Springdale UT 84767-0311. 
[Denny Davies, PIO, ZION, 12/15]

98-757 - Grand Canyon NP (AZ) - Drug Arrests

Last spring, members of the park's law enforcement staff joined DEA's Mobile
Enforcement Team (MET) and a regional interagency drug task force in an
effort to check drug trafficking in and around the park and nearby Tusayan. 
DEA informants were brought in and numerous controlled drug buys were
completed.  The five-month-long operation, which focused only on traffickers,
resulted in the November arrest of 17 people for drug dealing in the area,
many of them part of a significant drug pipeline into northern Arizona from
Phoenix and Mexico.  The operation also led to the deportation of four
illegal aliens, the shutting down of a document forging operation, the
seizure of currency and eight vehicles, and the recovery of two stolen
automatic weapons.  DEA's MET units are small teams of agents who work
exclusively in rural and small town settings to assist local agencies.  The
team provided critical staffing and funding support for this cooperative
operation.  [Franco Sidoti, CI, GRCA, 12/14] 

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION

No entries.

PARK DISPATCHES

No entries.

OPERATIONAL NOTES

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MEMORANDA

No entries.

INTERCHANGE

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