Opinion ID: 766923
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Heading: Extortion Attempt

Text: 8 Over the year preceding these events, a dispute arose between Mihran Karapogosian and his brother-in-law, Shage Pogosian, over a $140,000 debt allegedly owed by Karapogosian to Pogosian. Pogosian contacted Mikayelyan and asked for Mikayelyan's assistance in collecting the debt. Mikayelyan arranged for some of the participants in the car stealing conspiracy, including Semenov, Sarkisian and Ruslan Gabareyev, to go to Glendale, California, to intimidate Karapogosian into paying the alleged debt to Pogosian. Specifically, Gabareyev testified that 30 minutes prior to departing for Glendale, he spoke with Mikayelyan, who told Gabareyev that [Bekaryn] will tell you more over there on the way there, and when you guys get there you guys, [Bekaryn] tell you guys what you got to do there. Bekaryn supplied Semenov and Gabareyev with guns. 9 On February 12, 1996, armed with those guns, Sarkisian, Gabareyev and Semenov visited Karapogosian at his workplace. They told Karapogosian: You have to pay your debts to your brother-in-law. That's why we come down and ask for it. They added: The debt, you have to pay him. We don't care how you gonna get it. When you gonna get it?  Finally, they told Karapogosian that if he did not pay the debt, a bad thing was going to happen to him. Before leaving Karapogosian's office, they showed their guns to Karapogosian to intimidate him.