In Ijevan, patrols found a loaded machine gun near the driver of "Mercedes". he was intoxicated

On December 19, an emergency occurred in Tavush marz. Around 06:10, the patrols of the 1st company of the Tavush marz battalion of the Police Patrol Service of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs, led by the battalion commander Armen Bezhanyan and the deputy battalion commander Poghos Mosinyan, stopped the "Mercedes" car driven by 41-year-old Armen S., a resident of Tavush marz, on the Independence street of the Ijevan community. He drove the vehicle while intoxicated, reports Shamshyan.com. While drawing up a report, the patrols noticed an object under the driver's uniform and offered to take off the uniform, after which the latter took off the uniform and saw that under the military uniform he hid a rifle without a factory number and a cartridge box for the rifle loaded with 24 bullets of 7.62 caliber, which Armen S. informed the patrols that it belonged to of his late father and wears it for self-defense. C. According to Shamshyan's information, Armen S. was arrested on suspicion of possession of weapons and ammunition and was presented with the prepared documents to the Tavush regional investigative department of the RA Investigative Committee, where on December 19, within the framework of the initiated criminal proceedings, he was transferred to the detention facility of the Ijevan Department of the Community Police Department of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the photojournalist, Armen S. is the director of "Nargit" LLC.