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Jul. 1, 2010
The Natural Resources Police (NRP) charged three people with numerous offenses that began when one of them became lost in Savage River State Forest on June 5 while harvesting ginseng.
James Lewis Alt, 72, and John Darryl Mayhew, 48, both of Piedmont, W.Va., and Gary Lee Farris, 60, Westernport, were charged with collecting ginseng without a permit, harvesting ginseng out of season, removing, damaging, and destroying plants from a state forest, and using property and resources of state wild lands for commercial gain.
Farris and Mayhew were also charged with making a false statement to a police officer.
In another incident, the NRP charged William Kenneth Curry, 56, Pittsburgh, last Friday with operating a vessel while impaired by alcohol and operating a vessel while under the influence of alcohol.
Curry was stopped on Deep Creek Lake.
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