Media Advisory

WHEN:     Thursday, January 5, 2017 (9:00 am)

WHERE:    Mount Olive College

          Southern Bank Auditorium

          Raper Hall

          634 Henderson Street

          Mount Olive, NC 28365

Re:       11^th Annual Eastern Carolina Gang Conference

RALEIGH– The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina along with a host of partners representing law enforcement agencies, social service providers, and school systems are sponsoring the 11^th Annual Eastern North Carolina Gang Conference on Thursday, January 5, 2017.  The training begins at 9:00 am and will conclude at 4:00 pm.  Expected attendance to the day long training are 200 professionals and the program will consist of topics targeting gang prevention and intervention specialists along with law enforcement.  Additionally, the keynote speaker Colonel (Retired) Edward W. Timmons, Sr., State Director of the N.C. National Guard’s Tarheel ChalleNGe Program, will speak at 1:00 p.m.

Credentialed members of the media are invited to attend the sessions not exclusive for law enforcement.

For additional information please e-mail Don Connelly at usance.PublicInfoOfficer@usdoj.gov.