Natural Resources Police

A body discovered by a boater near Kent Island last week has been identified as a 17-year-old Severna Park High School student, Maryland Transportation Authority Police said. Emily Rose LeClare had been missing since Dec. 18, when her vehicle was found abandoned on the Bay Bridge. The police "don't know how she got in the water," said Cpl. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. The boater who found the body first contacted the Maryland Natural Resources Police, who then contacted the MdTA police, Green said.

Bill Huppert of Baltimore County (and several other readers) asked: Several unmarked illegal nets were removed from the Susquehanna River not too long ago. What happened to the nets? Were they destroyed or sold? I hope they were destroyed because that is the only way to prevent them from being used again. Stealing natural resources must be treated as a major infraction of the law. Outdoors Girl turned to Eric Schwaab , deputy secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, who began his career at the agency as a Natural Resources Police officer.

NRP asks night anglers to remember regulationsMaryland Natural Resources Police remind anglers taking part in night fishing at Carroll County's Piney Run Regional Park to observe Maryland fishing and boating regulations, including thenight fishing events scheduled on Wednesday evenings in September and October.Lights must be displayed on all vessels operating between sunset and sunrise.All motorboats, including those with electric motors, must also display a combination red and green bow light and an all-round (360 degrees)

Bill Huppert of Baltimore County (and several other readers) asked: Several unmarked illegal nets were removed from the Susquehanna River not too long ago. What happened to the nets? Were they destroyed or sold? I hope they were destroyed because that is the only way to prevent them from being used again. Stealing natural resources must be treated as a major infraction of the law. Outdoors Girl turned to Eric Schwaab, deputy secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, who began his career at the agency as a Natural Resources Police officer.

Bruce Miller of Dundalk writes: Nice column about Natural Resources Police (Dec. 6: "Effort to boost state's Natural Resources Police"). I appreciate what these people do and enjoy reading about them. However, in your column you wrote: "Groups will be working on a bill to spell out the issues and potential solutions to set the stage for more sweeping assistance. ... " What groups? What issues? What solutions? You whetted my appetite for more information. Outdoors Girl replies: Thanks, Bruce, for giving me the opening to use all the stuff I couldn't cram into last Sunday's column.

Five people rescued after boat capsizes Coast Guard and Maryland Natural Resources Police rescued five people from the Chesapeake Bay after their boat capsized Tuesday evening. The five Virginia residents were riding in a 17-foot Bayliner when its engine stopped, said Cpl. Ken Turner with the Natural Resources Police. Though the weather was mild, choppy waves eventually swamped the boat because its bilge pump would not function, Turner said. "There wasn't really anything they could've done," he said.

Two Carroll County men were arrested Saturday by Maryland Natural Resources Police on charges of illegally hunting deer by spotlighting or jacklighting, officials said.Charles Edward Yingling, 29, of Westminster, was charged with jacklighting after officers allegedly found him in the Fridinger Mill Road area shining a powerful light on a woodland while he was in possession of a weapon capable of killing an animal.The officers said they confiscated a rifle, scope, cartridges and spotlight from Mr. Yingling.

Maryland Natural Resources Police have not identified the body of a man found floating Sunday afternoon in Stony Creek in Riviera Beach, a spokesman for the department said yesterday.The body had been in the water for nearly a week before county divers -- responding to a tip -- found it about 1 p.m. under a pier near the 8200 block of Beach Road, said Bob Graham, a Department of Natural Resources spokesman.The victim was described as a black with short hair and a medium build. He was wearing jeans, a brown belt, a thermal shirt and American Eagle hiking boots.

Rescue officers were searching last night for a boater who disappeared in 2 feet of water along Back Creek after running his 30-foot sailboat aground.The 35-year-old captain of the Catalina sailboat had purposely run the vessel aground shortly before 3 p.m. to clean the hull, according to Coast Guard officials.He got out of the boat to begin cleaning it, leaving two passengers on board.After several minutes, the passengers realized that the man had disappeared, the Coast Guard reported.Another boat in the area contacted the coast guard after being alerted by the passengers on the sailboat that a man appeared to be missing in the water.

Two Jessup men have been charged with baiting black bears - with cookies and cake- while hunting this week on private property in Garrett County, Maryland Natural Resources Police said yesterday. Kendall T. Hayden, 51, and Frederick C. Wieland Jr., 42, were issued citations about 10:30 a.m. Monday in Oakland for hunting black bears with bait after police received an anonymous tip from a concerned citizen, Sgt. Ken Turner of the Natural Resources Police said in a news release. When officers arrived in the area off Cranesville Road near the Youghiogheny Mountain Resort, they observed Hayden hunting from a tree stand over a baited area covered in cookies and cakes, the release said.