Law Enforcement

Belgian Malinois K-9 Officer Hoost protected America’s public lands alongside Field Staff Ranger Chris Rice for eight years before retiring in 2018 to a life of chasing balls and belly rubs as a treasured member of the Rice family. He died at 11 years old.

Eight Bureau of Land Management Ranger K-9 teams from Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wyoming joined local, state, and federal K-9 teams for an annual training seminar hosted by the National Police Canine Association in Jackson Hole, Wyo., May 6-10, 2019.

The Bureau of Land Management Office of Law Enforcement and Security is pleased to announce the 2018 Law Enforcement Ranger of the Year and Special Agent of the Year. Ranger Kelly Cole and Senior Special Agent Robert Cowan were recognized yesterday at an award ceremony in Washington, D.C., as part of the bureau’s observance of National Police Week.

Bureau of Land Management law enforcement professionals from Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Montana, along with family and friends, joined thousands of their fellow officers and supporters from across the nation in the annual National Police Week 5k walk/run on May 11, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

On April 11, 2019, Martin Thornley Elze, 52, of Anchorage, was sentenced to serve 33 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for the 2018 theft of a 100-pound mammoth tusk from Alaska’s Campbell Creek Science Center. Elze was also ordered to pay $8,385.82 in restitution to the science center.