NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

INCIDENTS

Sequoia-Kings Canyon NPs

Three Brothers Indicted For Growing Marijuana In Park

On Thursday, October 15th, following a four-month-long joint investigation by NPS Investigative Services Branch agents and Sequoia and Kings Canyon rangers, three brothers were indicted on charges of conspiracy to manufacture and cultivate marijuana on federal lands. O.A.-D., G.A.-D. and J.A.-D., all from Stockton, California, were arrested in connection with two separate grow sites found within Sequoia National Park. Investigations began in early June when the two sites were identified within the Dorst Creek drainage of Sequoia National Park. On August 5th, they were raided and 3,545 marijuana plants were eradicated. During the raid, a search warrant was served at the camp site and items were collected as evidence. On October 6th, an additional search warrant was served at their Stockton residence, where all three men were arrested. During the search, additional marijuana plants, processed marijuana, cultivation supplies and four firearms were found and seized as evidence. At the time of the search warrant, eight adults and five young children were living in the house. Providing valuable assistance in the case were agents from both the Central Valley Marijuana Investigative Team and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [Adrienne Freeman, Acting Public Affairs Specialist]

OTHER NEWS

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

Office of Public Affairs - The National Park Service has released the full text of the investigation into the accident in which NPS firefighter Andrew “Andy” Palmer was killed in July, 2008. At the time of the accident, Andy was employed as a firefighter at Olympic National Park.

Chief Information Officer - On November 6th, the NPS network/active directory password policy will change to 12 character passwords. This change, which will affect all employees, contractors and volunteers, is being mandated by OMB in order to improve security on government computers.

Capital Training Center - Due to the huge number of applicants to the 2010 Albright-Wirth Grant Program, the Capital Training Center is re-announcing its call for interested employees to serve as 2010 Albright-Wirth Grant panel peer reviewers/evaluators.

Cape Cod NS - Kathy Tevyaw has been selected as the deputy superintendent of Cape Cod National Seashore. Photo.

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/

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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 and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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