Some wrestler took someone hostage and then tortured him while demanding ransom. It ended up being no one important but I totally thought it was going to be New Jack.
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A former Armenia wrestling champion has been convicted of kidnapping a man, beating him and demanding $1 million ransom.
A federal jury in Los Angeles found Vagan Adzhemyan (EDZ'-ih-mee-an) guilty on Monday. His first trial last year ended with a mistrial after the jury deadlocked.
The 42-year-old Adzhemyan admitted kidnapping Sandro Karmryan, beating him, shocking him with a stun gun, holding him captive for days and demanding a $1 million ransom from his family. Authorities say the kidnapping conspiracy ended with a SWAT team rescue of the near-death victim.
The Armenian-born Adzhemyan argued his actions were necessary because Karmryan was plotting to have him killed because he knew about an alleged loan scam.
Adzhemyan was a champion wrestler in Armenia and the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
His friend Galvin Gibson also was convicted in the plot.
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