Senior Navy Official Charged With Pulling Gun on Youth Outside of Home

By Crimesider Staff. A Virginia magistrate Tuesday morning issued three summonses for Karnig Ohannessian, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Environment, for brandishing a firearm.

Ohannessian can be seen in the video, which was recorded June 11, pointing a gun at young men he says are drunk and making noise outside his house in the Washington, D.C. suburbs.

Ohannessian tells the boys to get in their car, to which one of them responds: “You’re pointing a gun at my friend. This is a criminal offense, so please stop it.”

(Editor’s note: Contrary to the commentator’s final statement, Ohannessian has been charged)

The men taunt him while one of them records the incident. (Read more about the case involving Senior Navy Official Karnig Ohannessian HERE)

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Magistrate Originally Declined to Allow Charges Against Senior Navy Official

By Justin Jouvenal and Dan Lamothe. Fairfax County police said previously that officers were called to the 6600 block of Bestwicke Court in Burke, Va., on June 11 for a report of a man pointing a gun. An argument occurred on the street between a 49-year-old man and other men who had been at a house nearby, police said they were told. The 49-year-old man was said to have pointed his gun at several people.

Police began investigating but determined the victims had left the scene. A 24-year-old man later went to the West Springfield District station to file a report about the alleged brandishing, police said.

Officers then went to Ohannessian’s home and placed him under arrest, but a magistrate later determined that there was not probable cause to charge him with a crime and he was released.

Claude J. Beheler, the chief magistrate in Fairfax County, did not immediately return a call for comment, so it was unclear what had changed to warrant the decision to now go forward with charges against Ohannessian. (Read more about Senior Navy Official being charged HERE)