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Published on November 24, 2011
GLENDALE ARMENIANS CHARGED IN ALLEGED JOYRIDE
- Glendale prosecutors filed misdemeanor charges Wednesday against two former Pacific BMW workers who allegedly took a high-powered sports car on the lot for a joyride, Glendale News-Press reported.
A video of one of them gunning the vehicle down a residential street in Glendale was later posted on YouTube.
Vacheh Margoussian, 21, and Artin Yazidjian, 22, face misdemeanor charges for taking the car from the dealership, according to a complaint filed Wednesday by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Margoussian was also slapped with a misdemeanor reckless driving charge.
As a passenger, Yazidjian videotaped Margoussian driving at a high rate of speed down East Windsor Road, according to the complaint.
The men are scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 12 in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Glendale.
Glendale police detectives determined that the incident occurred on Aug. 12, and that the video was posted on YouTube the next day, said Sgt. Tom Lorenz.
Police were alerted to the YouTube video on Sept. 14, Lorenz added.
"The video was out there for some time before it got to us," he said.
Pacific BMW officials said they immediately fired the two workers after they found out about the incident.
The dealership cooperated with police, Lorenz said, and identified Margoussian, a valet, and Yazidjian, a tire technician.
Detectives later interviewed the former employees, who were also cooperative, said Lorenz, adding that there were no prior incidents involving the men or the dealership.
When Margoussian and Yazidjian allegedly took the 1 Series M coupe, it had just been delivered to the dealership. In the video, the car's interior was still covered in plastic and a sales sticker was in the window.
Pacific BMW officials said the coupe was sold just as word about the incident hit the news media and car enthusiast websites. The owner was told about the incident, but representatives from Pacific BMW would not say if the the car was returned.
The increasing popularity of YouTube and social media makes it more difficult to get away with joyrides and other wrongdoing, Lorenz said.
"What happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas," he said.
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Today in Armenian history- 1895 Birth of Hrachia Nerssissyan (actor). He died in 1961.
- 1913 Death of H.F.B. Lynch in London of Irish parentage. Besides his study of law, he became noted as a writer, a geographer, a politician, and a traveller, with a keen interest in Armenia. His two-volume book on his Armenia travels is a classic and describes life in Armenia at the end of the 19th century. In 1906, he was elected to serve as a member of the British Parliament. (He was born on 1862 04 18).
- 1920 The Tashnak government of Armenia falls. Simon Vratsian forms a new government.
- 1927 Death of Shooshanik Kiurghinyan (poetess) in Yerevan. She was born in 1876.
- 1940 Ceremonial inauguration of Lenin's monument, at Lenin Square in Yerevan.
- 1940 Yerevan's Zoological Garden is created.
- 1980 Opening of the meeting (in Yerevan) of Diasporan Armenian representatives.
- 1996 Robert Kocharian is re-elected for a second term as President of Artsakh. International observers witness the election.
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