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    Glendale NewsPress
    LATimes.com
    Jan 29 2005

    Glendale man will serve 16 months

    Ara Gabrielyan sentenced in stalking case after following
    ex-girlfriend with tracking device he attached to her car.

    By Jackson Bell, News-Press and Leader


    GLENDALE - A Glendale man was sentenced Friday to 16 months in prison
    for following his ex-girlfriend using a Global Positioning
    System-enabled cell phone attached to her car, one of the first
    stalking cases of its kind in L.A. County, officials said.

    Ara Gabrielyan, 33, pleaded no contest to one count of stalking and
    two counts of making criminal threats, officials said. Gabrielyan
    faces deportation to Armenia, his home country, upon completing his
    prison term, prosecutors said.

    Gabrielyan was arrested Aug. 29 after his former girlfriend, Gayanne
    Indezhan, reported to Glendale Police that she allegedly spotted him
    trying to change the cell phone's battery under her car, authorities
    said. He was accused of following Indezhan, a 35-year-old Glendale
    woman, for six months leading up to the arrest.

    Andrew Flier, Gabrielyan's defense attorney, believes that he will
    only serve up to four months of his sentence since he has nearly
    eight months in credit for time already served in jail. Flier also
    said Gabrielyan's family wants him to return to his home country.

    "We are happy about this because he is a nice man, and the more we
    would have fought the case, I think the worse it would have been for
    him," he said.

    Gabrielyan was reportedly using the phone as a tracking device, and
    would unexpectedly turn up while she was at a bookstore or traveling
    to Los Angeles International Airport, police said.

    During a preliminary hearing earlier this month, Indezhan testified
    that Gabrielyan could not accept that their relationship of two years
    was over and would call her continually throughout the day.

    Gabrielyan never physically attacked her, but she feared for the
    safety of herself and her children the month leading up to his
    arrest, Indezhan testified. She said he threatened to kidnap and
    impregnate her as well as kill both of them so they could be together
    "in eternity."

    "He told me that he was going to crash my car, then did it," she
    said. "He told me he was going to break into my house, and did it.
    Then he said he was going to kill me. Did I have that guarantee? No,
    but I was afraid he would do what he was going to say."
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