YEREVAN. – On Monday at around 10:15am, a young man entered the Mellat Bank branch in downtown Yerevan—the capital city of Armenia, made some demands in Persian, threatened with a knife and a taser, and then started using the taser.
The police officers on duty at this Iranian bank, however, rendered him ineffective and handed him over to the Central Police Department.
Police have found out that this person is Iranian citizen Morteza Ghorban Joshoar (born in 1982), and he had demanded money from the bank employees—under the threat of using a taser.
A criminal case has been filed.
Joshoar is arrested.
Also, it was found out that on December 21 at 9:15pm, the same person had entered a Yerevan pharmacy as a customer, demanded—with a taser—money from the pharmacy employee, but he could not conclude this crime, due to circumstances beyond his control.
