Last July, a Cincinnati (actually, he lives in Fairfield) resident named Davit Zakaryan was arrested in Iowa outside the hotel of Barack Obama. Zakaryan is an Armenian native here on a visa. He is a physicist, but that's not what he was doing in Iowa that day: he was selling playing cards with Obama's image on them. More on that in a moment...
Politico has two stories that give you all of the background here and here.
Although WLWT did a story on it, and even the unofficial voice of the Democratic Party in Ohio (Bill Sloat) covered the story as well; we have to go back to Iowa for the local political story angle: David Krikorian.
David Krikorian, who posted bond for Zakaryan, is a Cincinnati businessman who runs the company that sold Zakaryan the cards featuring the presidential candidates.More from the Politico:
"I don't really know him that well, but I felt like it was wrong for him to be arrested because he didn't do anything in the first place," Krikorian said in a telephone interview. "They have not yet given this kid the opportunity for his day in court."
I just spoke to David Krikorian, who said his company, Parody Productions, had sold the man who was arrested, Davit Zakaryan, some Obama and Clinton presidential playing cards to sell on the campaign trail.Doesn't ANYBODY think it is odd that a guy tied to an arrest at a hotel where Obama was staying is running for Congress? Isn't there a story in there for somebody??? None of the stories that feature Krikorian say that he is running for Congress...
Krikorian said Zakaryan was on the road vending them, and that any notion that Zakaryan posed some sort of threat — not, to be fair, something the police or Secret Service have ever suggested, but probably the reason the story got play — is ridiculous.
