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Nigerian scam artist sentenced


WARSAW, Ind. (WANE) A Nigerian man, who was arrested last year by Kosciusko County detectives in connection to a financial scam, was sentenced last week and is now in federal custody.
Kazeem Owonla, 44, was sentenced in Kosciusko County Superior Court after pleading guilty to Count II, theft, a class D felony. Owonla’s sentencing included an incarceration in the Kosciusko County Jail of 36 months, with 26 month suspended. Owonla was also ordered by the court to pay victim’s restitution, cost and various fines in excess of $16,000 prior to his release from jail, according to Kosciusko County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Hampton.
Owonla was initially taken into custody by officers from the Atlanta Police Department after he landed in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on November 12, 2014. Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation had tracked Owonla as he was returning to the United States. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputies had originally investigated a theft on June 28 of that year involving a female victim that had been scammed of thousands of dollars. As detectives progressed with their investigation, they discovered that Owonla had used various aliases, as well as a non-authorized photograph of Montana Attorney General Tim Fox as a profile “pic” to lure females.
During the course of the investigation, sheriff’s detectives were able to positively connect Owonla to the Kosciusko County victim, along with a second female victim in Clarksville, Ohio. Investigators had determined that Owonla also had other various banking accounts, but were unobtainable by law enforcement. Agents and detectives speculate that there are other potential victims that Owonla might have systematically scammed using other names and aliases.
Owonla was taken into custody at the Kosciusko County Jail by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Monday.