November 9, 2007
Conan Stalker Found Fit for Trial
The Boston priest arrested for stalking "Late Night" talk-show host Conan O'Brien has been found fit for trial. A Manhattan judge declared the Reverend David Ajemian mentally fit for trial after a court-appointed psychologist examined him. Ajemian was arrested after issuing a number of threats to the host of the NBC talk show host and attempts to get into an O'Brien taping.
Ajemian was relatively more unhinged than your average show biz stalker. He was also furious at tennis vet John McEnroe and accused the former on-court ranter of assaulting him in junior high. Ajemian attended Harvard with O'Brien and left hundreds of message board postings railing against the host. It was a postcard sent from Italy, however, that convinced cops that Ajemian was a serious threat to O'Brien.
The Rev. David Ajemian, 46 - who claims to have once lived in the same Upper West Side building as the star - turned up in Italy while O'Brien was on a trip there.Ajemian was nabbed when he showed up at a "Late Night" taping last Friday bearing a message he said only O'Brien would understand. The New York Post said cops expected Ajemian at the taping because the priest wrote O'Brien telling him he would see him there. The priest's seminary mentor, the Rev. John Mark Hannon, said that Ajemian could still be a good priest, given the proper psychiatric attention, "He was a good seminarian. He was kind and generous and affable and concerned how people were...He then sent a postcard from Italy to the Massachusetts-born comedian - bearing a postmark from the same town O'Brien had just visited, law-enforcement sources said.
He's very likable. It's just he's stupid, apparently." A good but stupid priest?
The Smoking Gun has the criminal complaint against Ajemian.
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Poor Alfred Molina... he's sunk so far.
I hear they are going to move him to a new parish so he can stalk Craig Furgeson. Ba-zing!
Good call on Alfred Molina. Who will be cast in the role of Conan in the eventual made-for-cable adaptation of this story?
I think "Priest Obsessed With Conan" would be a kickass "new college mascot"
Yeah, he can still be a good priest, just like all those pedophile priests went on to be good priests. What is it with the Catholic church? If he'd killed Conan, would they still be saying he could be a good priest? No doubt.
Absolutionally mad.
But I guess the church takes care of its own.
Fit for trial. Even though he believes in ghosts.
At least the priest was focused on an adult this time.
Well, he's back home in Boston--and he's already stirring up trouble. He went missing, tried to get into the building of the NBC affiliate, and finally self-admitted to the hospital.
http://bostonist.com/2007/11/11/conan_obriens_s.php
Maybe he'll get some help.