CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS 2 has been investigating a suburban mover for a few 12 months – and now, the proprietor of the corporate has surrendered greater than a 12 months after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
As CBS 2’s Lauren Victory reported Tuesday, police put out a warrant for Rafael Ohanesyan’s arrest 14 months in the past. He was lastly booked final week when he spent two nights in jail, and his victims are hoping he shall be spending much more time locked up.
Video posted to Ohanesyan’s Instagram web page exhibits at time when Bulls Moving was an lively shifting firm. State information present the Gurnee-based firm began in summer season 2019.
Packing up is likely to be what Bulls Moving itself is thus far, three years after inception. No one gave the impression to be of their workplaces when CBS 2 stopped by, and their quantity was not in service.
Meanwhile, we now have realized Ohanesyan was just lately arrested.
“I just felt this sense of peace,” stated Lindsay Williams, who stated she was a sufferer of Ohanesyan’s.
The Chicago-are enterprise proprietor surrendered to police in DeKalb County, Georgia in the summertime.
“He has to answer for what he did to our family,” Williams stated.
She says Bulls Moving stuffed her tings right into a storage facility as an alternative of relocating them from Georgia to Colorado, per her contract.
“The owner of Bulls attempted to get us to pay an additional several thousand dollars in cash to release our belongings, and the detective said, ‘Absolutely not,'” Williams stated.
Ohanesyan spoke with us in September 2021. He appeared floored when CBS 2’s Tim McNicholas instructed him a few warrant for his arrest.
McNicholas: “They say there’s an arrest warrant.”
Ohanesyan: “Never heard of it.”
At the time, Ohanesyan denied a lot of the Williams’ story – saying there have been misunderstandings in regards to the contract and he didn’t overcharge them.
Ohanesyan: “I’m very sorry about that Mr. Williams didn’t understand, from the beginning, the process of the service. Then how can I be responsible, or how can I face criminal charges? Let me ask you this.”
McNicholas: “I’m not the prosecutor or the police, but they say….”
Ohanesyan: “That’s what I’m telling you guys. It’s impossible.”
But Ohanesyan has now been arrested. We obtained his mug shot from final week.
Supplied to CBS 2
He is charged with felony theft in Williams’ case.
The DeKalb County, Georgia Sheriff’s workplace instructed us Ohanesyan surrendered – 14 months after the warrant was issued.
“I just felt in my body – I felt this huge release,” Williams stated.
So why flip himself in?
Victory referred to as one other quantity listed on the Bulls Moving web site. The one who answered was initially silent, and finally claimed he was not affiliated with the corporate.
Our Instagram message to Ohanesyan went unanswered, and the account the place we discovered that video promoting Bulls Moving mysteriously went clean.
So CBS 2 might not have gotten to speak with Ohanesyan once more, however Williams did. The mother of two testified at his bond listening to – and instructed him due to his actions, she has bother trusting individuals.
We know she will not be the one sufferer, and that is probably not our closing story about Bulls Moving.
