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    The Canadian Press - ONLINE EDITION
    Former Armenian wrestling champ found guilty of kidnapping business
    associate in California
    By: The Associated Press
    10/05/2010 11:46 PM | Comments: 0

    LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A former Armenian wrestling champion has been
    convicted of kidnapping a man, beating him and demanding a $1 million
    ransom.
    A federal jury in Los Angeles found Vagan Adzhemyan guilty on
    Monday. His first trial last year ended with a mistrial after the jury
    deadlocked.
    The 42-year-old Adzhemyan admitted kidnapping Sandro Karmryan, beating
    him, shocking him with a stun gun, holding him captive for days and
    demanding a $1 million ransom from his family. Authorities say the
    kidnapping conspiracy ended with a police rescue of the near-death
    victim.
    The Armenian-born Adzhemyan argued his actions were necessary because
    Karmryan was plotting to have him killed because he knew about an
    alleged loan scam.
    Adzhemyan was a champion wrestler in Armenia and the Soviet Union in
    the 1980s.
    His friend Galvin Gibson also was convicted in the plot.
    ___
    Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com


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