2 arrested after brazen wedding crasher seen on camera stealing $60K from California couple

GLENDALE, Calif. -- Two men person been arrested successful transportation to the theft of a wedding acquisition container successful Glendale. The thieves ruined what should person been 1 of the Orange County couple's champion nights ever.

One of the suspects is accused of stealing astir $60,000 from the couple, and the different was the alleged getaway driver.

Less than a week aft an Orange County mates became victims astatine their ain wedding, constabulary recovered thousands of dollars that were stolen from them, but that's not each they found.

A now-viral video shows the thief making disconnected with the bride and groom's acquisition container past weekend.

While his achromatic suit and formal shoes allowed him to acceptable successful astatine Nadeen and George Farahat's 300-guest wedding successful Glendale, helium couldn't fell from the information cameras inside, which captured wide pictures of his uncovered look before, during and aft the wedding crash-and-grab.

"A batch of tips came successful from that. Some were good, immoderate were bad. That's helped america place the suspects beauteous aboriginal connected successful the investigation," said Sgt. Jose Barajas with the Glendale Police Department.

Just 5 days aft the mates said "I do," Glendale constabulary arrested Armean Shirehjini. They accidental he's the antheral who stepped connected the creation level and waltzed retired of the Renaissance Banquet Hall with tens of thousands of dollars worthy of currency and checks from the wedding.

Police identified the getaway operator arsenic Andranik Avetisyan.

ABC Los Angeles affiliate KABC spoke with the newlyweds earlier this week.

"I ended up sitting connected the creation floor, sobbing with my friends and cousins astir me," the bride, Nadeen, said.

Glendale constabulary accidental they recovered a heap of checks and a bully magnitude of currency wrong a harmless astatine the suspect's home.

"Obviously, this idiosyncratic did deed the jackpot. We judge they got astir $60,000 and a fewer checks. We did retrieve 26 checks successful full and astir $10,000," Barajas said.

There was different astonishing find erstwhile constabulary executed hunt warrants connected some Shirehjni's and Avetisyan's homes: a ample magnitude of drugs and a ton of guns.

"Detectives executed hunt warrants astatine some suspects' residences and recovered a ample magnitude of currency and dozens of checks made retired to the victims from the wedding," according to the constabulary statement. "In addition, respective firearms and assorted narcotics were seized from some residences."

Despite what mightiness look similar the guns, drugs and currency haul you'd spot from an organized transgression enterprise, constabulary accidental neither fishy had a transgression past of doing this, and the theft was apt a transgression of opportunity.

"Glendale has a batch of banquet halls, a batch of weddings each azygous weekend, truthful we judge that possibly this was conscionable a random determination that they decided to pick," Barajas said.

No weapons were utilized astatine the wedding, but constabulary accidental Shirehjini was equipped erstwhile helium was arrested connected Friday night.

The happily joined couple, who KABC spoke with earlier the arrests were made and each the guns were found, are vowing to absorption connected each the amusive earlier the theft.

"We had a fantastic ceremonial astatine our church. We had a truly amusive enactment with our household and friends, and we were capable to observe up until the incident," the groom, George, said. "We're trying to absorption connected the amusive times, the important things to us, and the information that we're married."

KABC asked constabulary if immoderate oregon each of the guns were purchased legally, and they said they are looking into it. They're besides looking into the drugs and what look to beryllium fake IDs that were recovered.