The Times Union (Albany, New York)
July 25, 2007 Wednesday
1 EDITION

FBI terror sting brings multiple convictions

NEW YORK – An Armenian immigrant accused of plotting to sell Stinger
missiles, anti-tank guns and other military weapons from the former
Soviet Union to an FBI informant posing as an arms dealer was
convicted Tuesday with five co-defendants.

Artur Solomonyan was convicted of charges that he agreed to obtain
the deadly weapons. His lawyers had insisted that he was merely
leading on a government informant who had promised to get him a green
card. The five others were convicted of various charges.

The men were accused in an indictment of conspiring between December
2003 and March 2005 to import shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles,
rocket-propelled grenade launchers, anti-tank guided missiles and
machine guns without a license.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress