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Man from Belarus convicted in Oakwood burglary
Jurors reject defense argument that texts were 'dark Russian humor'
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When an Oakwood woman gave Dmitry Belousov shelter from the torrential downpour that hit South Hall County on May 19, 2013, she had already decided the fellow foreign national wasn’t a love interest, she said. But what came in the next few weeks was described as an even starker contrast to the initial anticipation of a possible romance. The Norcross man from Belarus was convicted of burglary with the intent to commit aggravated assault on Friday after a jury heard evidence of his increasingly aggressive advances toward Elena Tribounskaia.