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ARMENIAN CITIZEN ARRESTED IN USA

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The sources of the American Government inform that in Los Angeles, Miami and New York the 17 members of the criminal grouping smuggling Russian weaponry have been arrested. Another member is being searched for.

According to preliminary information, the leader of the grouping was 26-year-old RA citizen Arthur Solomonyan. Together with 4 arrested people, including Christian Spice, resident of the SAR, he is charged with transporting weaponry. The other arrested people are charged with supplying Solomonyan and Spice with weaponry.

According to the charge, the Russian weapon was obtained in Georgia, Armenia and other Oriental countries. Before being arrested the criminals have managed to sell 8 machine-guns and other automatic weaponry in USA and were going to import a larger quantity. The criminal grouping has managed to import into USA Kalashnikov guns and zenith-rocket complexes.

According to gazeta.ru, Solomonyan and Spice can be sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment.