- A Californian man has been arrested for allegedly using
global positioning system technology to stalk a former girlfriend.
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- Ara Gabrielyan is said to have attached a mobile phone
with the tracking system to the woman's car, allowing him to follow her
movements.
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- The unidentified woman said he had turned up unexpectedly
while she was having coffee at a bookshop, picking up a friend from the
airport, visiting her brother's grave and at dozens of other places.
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- "This is what I would call stalking of the 21st
century," said a police spokesman .
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- Mr Gabrielyan, 32, from Glendale, is said to have phoned
the woman 30 to 100 times a day after she ended their two-year relationship
six months ago.
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- She called the police and had him arrested after seeing
him underneath her car, changing the phone's battery.
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- The phone, which had a motion switch that turned on when
the car moved, sent a signal to a satellite, allowing Mr Gabrielyan to
track her movements on the internet.
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- He is being held on $500,000 (£280,000) bail and
faces up to six years in prison.
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- The police spokesman said: "It was an obsession,
an obsession to the point where 24-hours a day he had to know where she
was, what she did, who she met and how she carried out her daily routine."
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