NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, March 5, 2010

INCIDENTS

Grand Canyon NP

Man Pleads Guilty To Assaulting Five-Year-Old Son

On September 9, 2009, park law enforcement rangers responded to a report of possible child abuse at an in-park residence. When they arrived, they found a highly-intoxicated man and his two juvenile children present in the house. One of the children, a five-year-old boy, had injuries consistent with trauma. As a result, the rangers immediately contacted an on-call special agent with the National Park Service's Investigative Services Branch. A cooperative investigation by the agent and park law enforcement rangers was begun, and the child's father, N.Y., 33, was arrested. On March 3rd, N.Y., pled guilty to two counts of assault on a person under the age of 16. As a component of the plea agreement, N.Y. disclosed that he choked and punched the child between the evening of September 8, 2009, and the following morning. N.Y. has been in federal custody since his arrest. Sentencing is set for May 21st. [Christopher Smith, Special Agent]

OTHER NEWS

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

Midwest Region - Midwest Region has just entered into a $10.5 million interagency agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to take part this year in the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), an unprecedented Federal investment in the health of the Great Lakes.

Denver Service Center - The Designing the Parks awards program is now welcoming submissions for its inaugural awards. They are due by April 30th. Photo.

Intermountain Region - Mary Gibson Scott will act as regional director for Intermountain Region while a competitive search is conducted for a permanent regional director. Scott temporarily replaces Mike Snyder, who recently retired. Photo.

Redwood N&SP - Corky Farley retired on March 1st following almost 32 years of federal service. A celebration of Corky's career will be held on Sunday, March 28th. 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 - a TEL station broadcast on stewardship of park facilities next Tuesday, a course on the technical aspects of underwater recovery training at Glen Canyon, and firearms instructor training at the FLETC facility in Artesia, New Mexico.

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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