Obama campaign pursued by Ohio Armenians

Police arrested the young man, Davit Zakaryan, and charged him with driving without a valid driver's license and with possession of a concealed weapon, which turned out to be an ornamental knife that was found not on his person but in his car.

Obama's staff appeared to learn of the arrest from reporters in another Iowa town and kept their distance from the entire affair, which seemed to be quickly downplayed by Obama's Secret Service detail. Secret Service representatives have referred calls to the local police, who tried to minimize any notion of a security risk.

He said in an interview that he saw in the lobby that the Obama campaign was over there.. he thought he would wait a little and they would finish their job and he would ask them for directions.

When an Obama aide declined to give him directions, he said, he asked whether "we can go together" and then returned to his car, where he was arrested. He said he was told there were no judges in small, rural Wapello County that day, and that he'd have to wait until the morning to be released. He wound up spending three nights in jail, watching with horror television reports that a man with a knife had been arrested outside Obama's hotel, before a friend posted bail.

I am not sure about real fact because I was not there. But I hope that Obama would campaign without any trouble and yet he should not accuse innocent men(not this case). "He said he was told there were no judges in small, rural Wapello County that day, and that he'd have to wait until the morning to be released." I also think that, for what it's worth, by Iowa standards, Wapello County isn't that small or rural. It's population is 36,000 -- mostly the city of Ottumwa.