CASE MOVES SLOWLY AGAINST MAN ARRESTED OUTSIDE OBAMA EVENT
Chicago Tribune, IL
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Associated Press
May 26 2008
DES MOINES, Iowa – The case’s moving ahead slowly for a Cincinnati
man arrested last summer after attracting the attention of Secret
Service agents protecting presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Police arrested Davit Zakaryan in July after Secret Service agents
became suspicious of the Armenian native. He was charged with
possessing a concealed knife with a blade longer than 8 inches. The
knife was found in his car.
Zakaryan was released days later, but there’ve been more than a half
dozen delays in his case. A pretrial conference is now scheduled for
June 12th.
Wapello County Attorney Allen Cook says one reason for the delay has
been the difficulty of finding an Armenian interpreter.
Zakaryan says he was trailing presidential candidates to sell campaign
memorabilia outside events in the lead-up to the state’s precinct
caucuses.