Gyumri man arrested for false bomb alerts
YEREVAN, August 19 /ARKA/. Armenian law-enforcement authorities have arrested the man who called August 15 and August 16 the police and 911 rescue service in the second-largest city of Gyumri and said he was going to blow up several buildings, the Prosecutor General's Office of Armenia said.
The police evacuated the employees of those buildings and together with the rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations carried out checks, as a result of which it turned out that the bomb threats were false.
The arrested man was identified as resident of Gyumri J.S. He was detained on August 16 and the next day, the prosecutor supervising the investigation made a decision to institute proceedings against J.S. under the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of Armenia for giving false information on terrorism, which created panic, paralyzing the work of several government institutions in Gyumri.
On August 18, a petition for his arrest as a preventive measure was filed with the court of general jurisdiction of the Shirak region, which was granted the same day. -0-
