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Several members of the group appeared to be wearing large burlap-covered backpacks consistent with they type used by smugglers to carry contraband and provisions. The rangers landed nearby and moved to contact the individuals, some of whom fled. Three subjects were taken into custody and pounds of processed marijuana was seized from backpacks stashed nearby, along with a large food cache.
After successful prosecutions were brought by the US Attorney's Office in Tucson Arizona , all three men pleaded guilty. Alva-Flores was sentenced to serve 15 months in Federal prison, while Lopez-Valsquez and Cruz-Gonzales were each sentenced to serve 13 months. Upon their release from prison they will be transferred to immigration officials for removal proceedings. Carlson, age 45, for charges stemming from incidents of alleged child abuse the month before.
Court documents state that Carlson, of Indiana, took his three grandsons on two separate hikes into the canyon that month. Temperatures during both hikes exceeded degrees Fahrenheit. The indictment alleges that Carlson severely limited water and food for the boys, ages 8, 9, and 12, and that Carlson marched and ran them up dangerous terrain, placing their health at risk. Carlson was charged for violations of Knowing Child Abuse committed under circumstances likely to produce death or serious bodily injury.
A vehicle with three occupants crashed into a ponderosa tree near the intersection of Center and Shuttle Bus roads on August 23, Investigators found both alcohol and marijuana at the scene of the accident. The driver of the vehicle and one of the passengers sustained serious injuries from the crash and were taken to the nearest trauma center. Another passenger was pronounced dead at the scene.
Serros pleaded guilty on September 19, to the first charge; the other two charges were dismissed pursuant to the plea agreement. Sentencing is scheduled to take place on November 28, Thousands of artifacts have been returned to the California Native American Heritage Commission and two men have been sentenced as a result of a multi-agency investigation into violations of the Archeological Resources Protection Act ARPA on public lands.
Interviews resulted in admissions that the residents went to northwestern Nevada on two occasions and and collected artifacts from Bureau of Land Management BLM land.
The residents knew this activity was illegal and these artifacts were recovered at their home. The suspects also admitted removing artifacts from other publicly owned lands. Investigators found and seized computers, GPS units, maps, photographs showing the residents searching for and collecting artifacts, and other documentary evidence.
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Officers also discovered approximately 38, artifacts on the property and in the vehicles associated with the property. These artifacts included beads and other burial objects, such as abalone breastplates and pendants, projectile points, mortars, pestles, metates, and stone tools. About evidence lots were seized that included roughly artifacts that may have come from federal lands.
In June of , damage assessment field work was conducted at the looted site in northwestern Nevada. Two of the residents, a father and adult son, were indicted in October of on four felony counts including ARPA violations, conspiracy, and theft.
In July of , after extensive negotiations, the father agreed to surrender approximately 30, non-federal artifacts to the California Native American Heritage Commission. These artifacts, predominantly burial goods, were then returned to the appropriate tribes by the commission. In October, following a three hour sentencing hearing that included testimony by a BLM archeologist and Native American tribal representatives, the adult son was sentenced to 30 days in prison, three months home detention and one year of supervised release for his one count misdemeanor ARPA conviction.
A second man has been convicted and sentenced for smuggling drugs in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Alamo Canyon is open to and frequented by park visitors. On making contact with the group, numerous suspects fled the area. Rangers captured two suspects, later identified as Omar Sandoval-Ventura and Jose Martin Burgos-Diaz, and recovered six backpacks found to contain pounds of processed marijuana.
The US Attorneys Office in Tucson successfully prosecuted the case, resulting with Burgos-Diaz being sentenced to 13 months in federal prison earlier this year. On October 24, Sandoval-Ventura was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for his involvement in this smuggling operation. The two agencies initiated a collaborative investigation, which was further assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Polygraph Unit.
As a result of the investigation, a nationwide extraditable warrant for the subject's arrest was issued. Lydia White, age 48, was named in a count indictment on October 5, These charges are allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. Her actions deprived the NPS of the use and benefit of the involved funds. Court documents further allege that White conducted financial transactions affecting interstate commerce knowing the property involved represented the proceeds of her unlawful activity, and knowing that the transactions were designed to disguise the nature or source of the unlawfully-obtained proceeds.
Assistant US Attorneys are conducting the prosecution. White also faces a possible order to pay restitution. The indictment includes an asset forfeiture allegation, which states that the defendant shall forfeit all of her interest in any property, real or personal, that consists of or is derived, directly or indirectly, from proceeds traceable to the commission of the offenses stated in the indictment.
Preliminary findings from the investigation revealed that an employee had been using six Fleet cards to purchase gas for personal use. The employee was indicted in Federal court on October 3, on one count of violating 18 US Code A man who beat a year-old girl to unconsciousness in Hot Springs National Park has been sentenced to prison.
The attack took place in June of in front of the park visitor center. US Park Rangers and officers of the Hot Springs Police Department responded to the incident and found the victim alive but unresponsive. Veasley was wanted on previous warrants by the county and State of Arkansas and had fled the area.
Investigators located Veasley months later, and he was subsequently arrested and jailed. Veasley was charged in federal court under 18 USC and on November 14, , he pleaded guilty to the assault. He was sentenced to 45 days in jail to run concurrently with other time being served for his past criminal history.
Jeffrey Drye, age 25, has been convicted and sentenced on November 10 for the sexual assault of a minor in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. In January of , Drye, two other men, and a female minor hiked into the Kahuku unit of the park at night. After making a campfire, the two other men walked back to their car to get some food. The car was parked about a mile away. During the other men's absence, Drye assaulted the girl. Drye was indicted last year for abusive sexual contact and sexual assault in the first degree.
Women victims may suffer from incontinence and vaginal fistula as a result of these particularly violent instances of rape. Soviet Red Army troops looted and terrorized the people of Mukden located in Manchuria , the northernmost province of China. US Park Rangers responded and located the victim at a nearby concessionaire dormitory. A Youth's Day Off". On later occasions, he informed Princewill that the reason for the resurgence of the odor was that several of his tropical fish had recently died, and that he would take care of the matter. US to help get Canadian detainees freed amid Huawei row, Pompeo says. Trentacosta was remanded into federal custody until disposition of the case.