NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
MORNING REPORT
Monday, February 23, 2015
INCIDENTS
C&O Canal NHP
Park Police Officers Make Significant Auto Larceny Case
On February 4th, the Park Police received a report of a larceny from an auto in the upper parking lot of the Widewater parking lot on the C&O Canal.
Investigator Christopher Lawston and Detective Sergeant Carl Holmberg knew of a man named D.T. who had been targeting that area. Both knew that D.T. frequented an Exxon gas station in Forestville, Maryland, where stolen credit cards had been used in the past. Holmberg went to the location and began to search for D.T. He located a vehicle that D.T. had used in previous cases and saw that D.T. was pumping gas into an F-250 Ford pickup.
Holmberg approached D.T. and identified himself as a police officer just as the gas pump asked if the user wanted a receipt for the gas. Holmberg acquired the receipt, which was determined to be for a card owned by the complainant in the Widewater case. D.T. was placed under arrest. Several gift cards were found on his person.
A woman with D.T. consented to a search of her vehicle and apartment, where Park Police officers recovered numerous items that have been linked to at least nine complainants in separate cases in Fairfax, Prince George, Alexandria, and Charles Counties and with other parks within National Capital Region. Officers also learned that D.T. had significant jail time pending for cases in other jurisdictions.
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[Sergeant Lelani Woods, Public Information Officer]
OTHER NEWS
The following stories are among those in today's webpage editions of InsideNPS (available to NPS employees only) and the Morning Report (available to all readers):
Office of Communications - Visitation at America's national parks broke all-time records in 2014. There were 292.8 million visits to the parks, breaking the previous record set in 1987, when parks saw just over 287.2 million visits.
Dinosaur NM - Dinosaur National Monument recently hosted a river science symposium to bring together scientists to discuss results from their studies of the Green and Yampa Rivers.
Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs - This week's update on past and upcoming hearings, newly introduced bills, and the status of legislation of interest to the Service. This report covers activities in Congress through February 20th.
Information Resources Directorate - Seshu V. Vaddey has been selected as the new chief of the Resource Information Services Division at the National Information Services Center in Lakewood, Colorado.
To see the full text of these stories, readers should go to one or the other of the following sites:
NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index
Non-NPS employees - HYPERLINK "http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/" http://www.nps.gov/morningreport/
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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