{"id":283552,"date":"2018-02-08T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=283552"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:38:54","slug":"man-accused-of-trying-to-steal-vodka-found-dead-in-yerevan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2018\/02\/08\/man-accused-of-trying-to-steal-vodka-found-dead-in-yerevan.html","title":{"rendered":"Man Accused of Trying to Steal Vodka Found Dead in Yerevan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norayr Melkonyan, a 63-year-old Russian citizen accused of attempting to steal a bottle of vodka from a Yerevan supermarket, was found dead in a tire shop in the Armenian capital\u2019s Avan district. The man\u2019s naked body was found on February 4, Hetq.am reports, adding that a criminal investigation has been launched into the death.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charge sheet, Melkonyan \u201cdecided to steal a bottle of vodka when passing by the Krpak supermarket on Tigran Mets avenue on May 10 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an attempt to implement his criminal intent, Melkonyan entered the supermarket and went to the vodka counter. He then took a 0.5l vodka bottle worth 1050 drams and tried to hide it under his jacket. The employees of the supermarket noticed Melkonyan and urged him to stop [&#8230;] Melkonyan was caught by [other shoppers] at the entrance door as he tried to escape,\u201d the prosecution said.<\/p>\n<p>Melkonyan was subsequently released on his own recognizance since he did not have a criminal record. During the preliminary investigation, Hetq writes, the defendant accepted the charge and said he had tried to take vodka \u201cto drink during dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The case has been in court for 7 months; the defendant, however, never appeared to any of the hearings.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melkonyan was subsequently released on his own recognizance since he did not have a criminal record. During the preliminary investigation, Hetq writes, the defendant accepted&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66033],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}