Crime Off The Grid

In 2014, a routine contact in Arizona’s Blue Ridge area of the Coconino National Forest turned into a fight for survival. When a U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer investigated a vehicle parked off a forest road, he had no idea the encounter would escalate into a violent struggle.

Sources:

Flag Film Productions, LLC
In Person Account
Reenactment of Officer Involved Shooting

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In the summer of 2024, Yosemite dispatchers became increasingly concerned about a man making repeated harassing calls to the park's 911 center. What started as an investigation into nuisance phone calls and an illegal campsite hidden near a trailhead would quickly escalate into threats, violence, and an assault on a National Park Service ranger.

Source:
United States District Court; Eastern District of California; Case no. 1:24-mj-00085-EPG

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News stories for this week include a “fall” off the cliff incident from Tettegouche State Park on Lake Superior, In Oregon, 2 women were kidnapped from their tent off of a popular hiking trail, human remains of a missing National Laboratory employee found in a New Mexico forest; A drone harassing a grizzly sow and cubs in Yellowstone,  multiple arrests made in a national forest in Georgia, and a 2:00am assault and gunshot injuring a toddler in a campsite in the Olympic National Forest.

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Nancy and Tara are in Alaska this week, so we're dusting off this story from the vault that took place on the border of America's largest national park, Wrangell St Elias, in Alaska.

A hippie turned religious fundamentalist moves his family of 15 children to Alaska and creates what he calls "Hillbilly Heaven."  He picks a fight with the National Park Service and all of his abuses on his family get exposed.

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In the darkness of Shenandoah National Park’s Mathews Arm Campground, terrified campers called 911 after hearing screams, threats of murder, and violent sounds coming from a nearby tent. Rangers soon uncovered a brutal domestic violence attack involving a hatchet, a shattered windshield, and...lots of blood.

Source Material:
U.S. District Court
Western District of Virginia (Harrisonburg)
CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 5:25-po-00062-JCH-1
USA v. Bougria

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