On Friday, Oct. 23 at approximately 2:30 a.m., a patrol officer conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for speeding in the area of San Fernando Road and Broadway. Upon contacting the driver, identified as 27-year-old Razmik Grigoryan of Tujunga, officers could see multiple Employment Development Department (EDD) debit cards inside the vehicle and an open bag containing several thousand dollars in cash.
On the front seat of the vehicle, officers could also see a large amount of prepaid gift cards, several pieces of EDD paperwork and notebooks with identity profiles written down on them including people’s names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.

Officers searched the vehicle and located approximately 39 State of California EDD debit cards (some of which had four-digit PINs written on them), over $15,000 in cash, a loaded stolen semi-automatic handgun, several bags containing EDD mail inside of them in different people’s names, numerous receipts for department stores each exceeding cash purchases of over $10,000, a bag containing approximately 18 keys for post office boxes with different addresses on them, a military grade electronic jamming device, methamphetamine and a methamphetamine pipe.

Grigoryan was arrested and booked for multiple charges including felony identity theft, forging an official seal, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance with a firearm. Based on the fact that Grigoryan was currently out on bail for two other arrests involving identity theft charges, a bail deviation was obtained from a judge.