September 5, 2004
High-tech stale of stalking in the 21st century
In what authorities said was the first GPS stalking case in Los Angeles County, Ara Gabrielyan, 32, was charged Tuesday with stalking and threatening over a six-month period to kill his former girlfriend and himself, reports The Daily News Unwired.cc.
"Gabrielyan -- who ran an Armenian CD and video specialty shop -- is suspected of attaching GPS technology to his ex-girlfriend's car to pinpoint her location so he could arrange apparent chance encounters at the bookstore, at the airport, even at her brother's grave site.
Gabrielyan had purchased a Nextel phone device that has a motion switch on
it that turns itself on when it moves. As long as the device is on, it transmits a signal every minute to the GPS satellite, which in turn sends the location information to a computer."
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