Two young men armed with guns made their way into the store, took three female workers hostage and then broke the glass displays and stole golden, diamond and silver jewelry worth 55,740 AMD. Legal proceedings were instituted the same day by the Central police division. The police asked the workers to describe the thieves’ physical appearances, during which the photo camera was giving a more or less clear picture of the thieves. It turns out that the criminals were Georgian citizens by the names of Spartak Arakelyan and Arthur Karagashvili. The latter were investigated. As a result of the investigative work, Arthur was found in Tbilisi in November 2005, however the Georgian chief prosecutor’s office refused to hand him over to Armenian police officers due to the fact that he is a citizen of Georgia. In 2006, the police investigators of the Yerevan police division found out that the other thief, S. Arakelyan was found in the Doni Rostov city of Russia. The operative investigation team went to Doni Rostov to get Arakelyan and transfer him to Armenia in February 2006 and restart the quashed case. Once at the police investigation department, Arakelyan confessed that he and two of his other acquaintances had made their way into the store, fired into the air with their guns, took three female workers hostage and robbed the jewelry kept in the display cases. He confessed that earlier on, he had exchanged the money at an ATM machine near the store, looked carefully at the jewelry as well as the entire store, the entrance and exit, which was necessary for him and the others to know how to get in and out. After breaking the glass display cases, Arakelyan had gotten a cut on his right hand and left blood stains on the floor near the scene of the crime. After forensic medicine investigation, doctors declared that Arakelyan could have had blood stains on his right hand while committing the crime. The case has been sent to the first instance court of Central and Nork Marash communities. The two other criminals are currently being persecuted.
