AUSTINTOWN, Ohio - An irate man at a local strip club is facing a dozen criminal charges including two counts of felonious assault.
Forty-four-year old Suren Aramyan is under arrest and will be arraigned on Monday.
A sign on the door of Club 76 states the business is closed due to an accident.
At 1:36 a.m. Saturday morning a call was made to 911 in Austintown. The caller claimed after a driver of a semi truck was ordered to leave he struck the back of the building with his semi.
Six cars including a black Cadillac were damaged.
Aramyan is also facing a charge of driving under the Influence and resisting arrest.
Update:
A Las Vegas man is being held in the Mahoning County Jail on $2.5 million bond after an incident at an Austintown strip club in which investigators said he crashed his semi truck into the building and tried to kill 21 people.
Suren Aramyan, 44, entered no plea Monday in Austintown Area Court on 21 charges of first-degree felony attempted murder, second-degree felonious assault, third-degree felony inducing panic, and misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, driving a commercial vehicle while drunk, operating a vehicle in commission of a felony and refusing to submit to an OVI test.
Aramyan is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Nov. 28.
Aramyan was kicked out of the Club 76 strip club, 5335 Seventy-Six Dr., at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Aramyan then drove his semi truck into the building, causing more than $150,000 damage and the club to be closed for the weekend.
Charges said he damaged six cars in the parking lot and threatened a man, Bernie E. Belfrage, with a gun.