NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, March 27, 2015

INCIDENTS

Yellowstone NP

Concession Employee Pleads Guilty To Credit Card Theft And Fraud

On November 30, 2010, a concession employee reported to the National Park Service that D.R. had stolen her credit card information and then fraudulently used the card to purchase items while within the boundaries of the park.

An investigation conducted by the Investigative Services Branch revealed a series of fraudulent purchases by D.R. totaling approximately $2,792 between September 4 and October 13, 2009. The total financial loss to the victim was estimated at $4, 600.

On January 2, 2015, D.R. was arrested on a warrant in Washington State and held pending trial. Rangers from Lake Roosevelt NRA assisted with the coordination and transport of D.R. for his initial appearance.

D.R. pleaded guilty to three counts of misappropriation of property and services and was sentenced to 60 days imprisonment and a year's supervised release and ordered to pay full restitution to the victim.

[Investigative Services Branch]

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):

Historical Documentation Programs - The Historic American Landscapes Survey has documented the historic landscape features of Ellis Island with a high definition laser scanner. A short animation video shows the 3D point cloud model produced from the laser scanner data.

Geologic Resources Division - A new NPS Natural Resource Report, entitled "Inventory of coastal engineering projects within Assateague Island National Seashore," has been released. It is now available on IRMA portal.

Fort Smith NHS - Representatives from the Arkansas national parks spoke to tourism leaders about the upcoming NPS Centennial celebration at the Arkansas Governor's Conference on Tourism earlier this month.

Denver Service Center - George Washington Memorial Parkway and the Denver Service Center co-hosted a charette to explore improvements to the Memorial Circle area, adjacent to Arlington Memorial Bridge, in late February.

Office of Public Health - Commander David Engelstad, design branch chief and project manager at Yosemite, was recently selected as the NPS engineer of the year and as Public Health Service engineer of the year.

Servicewide Training Calendar - The following have been added to this week's calendar - a webinar on FERS benefits for law enforcement officers, two Webex training sessions on the interagency pass program, three webinars on passing credit card security audits, and a firearms instructor course at FLETC.

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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