NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Thursday, August 22, 2013
INCIDENTS
Grand Teton NP
Rangers Employ Taser In Arrest Of Seasonal Concession Employee
Rangers had to employ a taser during the arrest of a 47-year-old seasonal concession employee late on the evening of Thursday, August 15th.
Jackson Lake Lodge security officers called rangers at 10:45 p.m., seeking assistance with an intoxicated man near their employee residential area.
Rangers found a man walking along the side of the road leading to the employee residential area who matched the description provided by security officers and stopped to question him and assess his condition. The man, identified as E.S., 47, refused to comply with rangers' requests and instead took an aggressive, assault-like stance with clenched fists and lowered head. After repeated requests to comply with their lawful orders, which were ignored, the rangers used a taser to subdue E.S. and take him into custody. He was then transported to Teton County Jail.
After the arrest, a number of witnesses came forward and reported that E.S. made reference to having multiple bombs set to ‘go off' in the morning. Additional rangers were called out to investigate this threat and a thorough search of the employee residential area was conducted. The bomb threat was determined to be baseless.
On Tuesday, August 20th, E.S. appeared before the federal magistrate, where he pled guilty to driving under the influence and to resisting rangers (18 U.S.C. § 111). He was sentenced to 20 days in custody and two years' probation. He was also banned from Grand Teton National Park for two years and ordered to consume no alcohol for that same period.
No injuries were sustained by the involved rangers or E.S.
This incident marked the second use of a taser in just one week. In the first, a taser was used to subdue a combative mentally-disturbed young man.
[Jackie Skaggs, Public Affairs Officer]
Chattahoochee NRA
Body Of Missing Boater Found And Recovered
A week-long search for a missing 32-year-old Atlanta man came to a conclusion on August 13th when his body was found in the Chattahoochee River.
The body was spotted by searchers in a Georgia Department of Natural Resources helicopter and was recovered from the river approximately 100 yards downstream from where he was last seen.
Rangers were assisted by police and fire personnel from a number of local agencies - the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Forsyth County, Clayton County, Dawson County, Johns Creek, and the City of Atlanta.
[Sean Perchalski, 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/):
Everglades NP/Big Cypress NP - The Everglades and Big Cypress aviation programs are working together with EPA this summer to support a complex aviation-dependent research project called the Everglades Ecosystem Assessment Program.
GOAL Academy - Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 GOAL (Generating Organizational Advancement and Leadership) Academy program. They must be submitted by September 5th.
Lake Clark NP&P - The park recently hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to dedicate the new accessibility ramp at the park's visitor center in Port Alsworth.
Natchez Trace Parkway - In early August, students from the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma traveled over 600 miles from East Central University to Natchez Trace Parkway for a week-long visit exploring the ancestral homelands of the Chickasaw people.
Effigy Mounds NM - Children's Archeology Day, which was held at Effigy Mounds National Monument on Saturday, August 10th, was the most successful such day the park has had.
Northeast Region - Lucy Lawliss has been selected as the superintendent of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. She assumes her new duties immediately.
Denver Service Center - Jodie Petersen has been selected as a branch chief for Denver Service Center's Design and Construction Division. She will be responsible for DSC design and construction projects in Northeast Region.
Denver Service Center - Ron Shields has been selected as a branch chief for Denver Service Center's Design and Construction Division. He will be responsible for DSC design and construction projects in the Midwest and Alaska Regions.
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The Morning Report is produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@contractor.nps.gov).
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