NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Friday, June 26, 2015

INCIDENTS

Hot Springs NP

Rangers Arrest Combative Juveniles

On the evening of Friday, June 12th, rangers were notified of an assault that had occurred on the park's historic Grand Promenade, located in the downtown area of the park. They eventually located a juvenile man matching the suspect's description sitting amongst a group of people on Bathhouse Row.

The rangers contacted him and were in the process of separating him from bystanders when he became aggressive and started yelling at them. He became so upset that bystanders had to restrain or pull him away from rangers several times. The young man was eventually placed in handcuffs and escorted to a patrol vehicle, where a young woman approached with his shoes. Rangers repeatedly ordered her to get back and had to push her away when she would not leave. She then became aggressive, screaming and yelling, but was pulled away by her friends.

Once the young man was placed in the patrol vehicle, rangers again contacted the young woman, who refused to provide identification. When they attempted to arrest her, she became combative and had to be wrestled to the ground by rangers and city police. During the altercation, there were approximately 50 other juveniles yelling and screaming at the rangers and city officers, which is becoming a common occurrence in the downtown section of the park during the warm summer months.

The juveniles were arrested and taken to the Garland County Juvenile Detention Center. Charges included interference with agency function and disorderly conduct.

[Justin Cully, Chief Ranger]

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):

National Capital Parks - East - National Capital Parks - East provided Frederick Douglass's Bible for the swearing-in ceremony of Attorney General Loretta Lynch on June 17th. The Bible is part of the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site museum collection.

Office of Communications - Confederate flag sales items are being removed from national park book stores and gift shops. The action applies to sale items that solely depict a Confederate flag.

Intermountain Region - The Sand Creek Massacre and the Civil War, a film co-produced by Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, has won the Blue Pencil Gold Screen Award for a documentary film.

Land Resources Division - Staff from the WASO Land Resources Division recently taught a two-day right-of-way permitting course in Omaha at the Midwest Regional Office.

Midwest Region - Carol Dage, a 26-year veteran of the National Park Service, has been selected as the new superintendent of Harry S Truman National Historic Site in Independence, Missouri.

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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