NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, February 26, 2010

INCIDENTS

Haleakala NP

Illegal Camper Arrested On State Warrants, Park Charges

On February 16th, protection ranger James Mar contacted a group of seven visitors at the 10,000-foot summit of Haleakala for illegal camping and alcohol violations. During the contact, Mar learned that a member of the group, a 21-year-old Maui resident, had state warrants out against him. When Mar attempted to arrest him, he fled on foot into a closed area. Mar chased the man by vehicle and foot and was able to intercept him as he tried to cross a road. Mar pointed his taser at the man, which proved instrumental in effecting the arrest. The man was booked into the Maui Police Department jail on federal charges (interference and the camping and alcohol violations) as well as the state warrants. [Bruce M. Applin, Chief Ranger]

OTHER NEWS

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

Montezuma Castle NM - Nearly 40 volunteers worked with park staff to sow seed and plant 817 plants over 30 acres at the Montezuma Well riparian restoration project last week.

Department of the Interior - U.S. flags at DOI facilities that were lowered to half staff on Tuesday in memory of Director Sam Hamilton of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are to remain at half staff through sunset today, the day of interment, then returned to full staff.

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 - an ICS unit leader academy in Little Rock (with courses in a wide range of ISC disciplines, from finance to safety to resource unit leader), a commercial services asset management training workshop at NCTC, taser instructor refresher training at Delaware Water Gap, a course on the volunteers-in-parks program in St. Paul, three FLETC courses (firearms instructor, physical security, and LE driver instructor), an ARPA training course in Tucson, and two Fundamentals V classes, both in Washington.

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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