UPDATE: Press Conference to Announce Significant Law Enforcement Action Involving...

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Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:02pm EDT 

UPDATE: Press Conference to Announce Significant Law Enforcement Action
Involving Theft of Archaeological and Cultural Artifacts From Public and
Indian Lands in Four Corners Area

SALT LAKE CITY, June 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Deputy Attorney General
David W. Ogden; Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar; Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett L.
Tolman; and FBI Special Agent in Charge Timothy Fuhrman of the Salt Lake City
Field Office will participate in a press conference TODAY, JUNE 10, 2009 at
1:00 P.M. MT/3:00 P.M. ET in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Salt Lake City. 

Those participating in the press conference will be announcing a significant
law enforcement action targeting the theft of archaeological and cultural
artifacts from public and Indian lands in the Four Corners area. 

WHO: Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk 
U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett L. Tolman 
FBI Special Agent in Charge Timothy Fuhrman, Salt Lake City

WHEN: TODAY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009
1:00 P.M. MT/3:00 P.M. ET

WHERE: U.S. Attorney's Office 
185 South State Street, Suite 300 
Salt Lake City

Media can listen to the press conference by joining a conference call at 11:45
A.M. To join the call, dial 801-325-3274 and enter access code 0167364. Those
participating by conference call will not be able to ask questions. The
following media contacts can provide follow-up information or can help
facilitate follow-up interviews with press conference participants:

Melodie Rydalch, U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah, 801-243-6475  Craig Leff,
Department of Interior/BLM, 202-549-9218  Jeff Krauss, Department of Interior,
202-452-5128  Juan Becerra, FBI Field Office in Salt Lake City, 801-514-3672 

CONTACT: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1-202-514-2007,
TDD: +1-202-514-1888; or Melodie Rydalch of the U.S. Attorney's Office in
Utah, +1-801-243-6475


SOURCE  U.S. Department of Justice
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