Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022 | 5:16 p.m.
A former special agent assigned to the U.S. National Park Service’s Lake Mead office in Boulder City was sentenced today for submitting false information about his experience and education during his application for the job, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada.
Daniel Joshua Carnow, 46, pleaded guilty in June to false official writing after misrepresenting on his resume to the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service that he had previously served as a special agent in the U.S. state department’s Diplomatic Security Service.
He was also dishonest about earning a Master of Forensic Science degree from the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
“Public service is a public trust and deceitfulness committed by law enforcement officers is especially egregious,” Jamie DePaepe, special agent in charge for the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Interior, said in a statement. “Acts such as the conduct in this case also undermine the nation’s trust of law enforcement. By his actions that led to today’s sentencing, the defendant violated and undermined that trust.”
Carnow, who was a federal law enforcement officer with Immigration Customs Enforcement before taking the job in the U.S. National Park Service, has been sentenced to one year of probation and a $500 fine and has been barred from future employment as a federal law enforcement officer, the office said.
The case was investigated by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility.
“The OIG will remain steadfast in our efforts to investigate such individuals who prove themselves unworthy of public trust,” DePaepe said in a statement.
