{"id":9731,"date":"2016-01-28T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2017-04-14T15:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T19:46:56","slug":"natural-resources-police-blotter-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/01\/28\/natural-resources-police-blotter-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Resources Police Blotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington County man was charged Tuesday with illegal use of public lands by the Maryland Natural Resources Police.<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/NRPcolor_small.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3472\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3472\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/06\/NRPcolor_small.jpg\" alt=\"Maryland Natural Resource Police logo\" width=\"120\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Wayne Pridemore, 53, of Smithsburg, received citations for cutting down a tree, having a tree stand on park property and driving in a non-designated area. He received warnings for theft of under $500, hunting in a non-designated area and gathering firewood in a state park without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, staff at Greenbrier State Park reported finding illegal tree stands near Barth Spring Lane and Hippin Hill Road. Days later, an officer on patrol noticed a tractor pulling a log down a lane from state property. The driver, Pridemore, said he didn\u2019t know who owned the property and acknowledged ownership of the tree stand near where he cut down the tree.<\/p>\n<p>After consulting with park staff, the officer filed the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The case has not been scheduled for Washington District Court. If convicted of all three offenses, Pridemore could face a maximum fine of $1,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington County man was charged Tuesday with illegal use of public lands by the Maryland Natural Resources Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9732,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}