{"id":82342,"date":"2025-12-15T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82342"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:07:35","slug":"nigerian-american-socialite-arrested-in-north-carolina-over-247000-dollar-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/15\/nigerian-american-socialite-arrested-in-north-carolina-over-247000-dollar-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIAN-AMERICAN SOCIALITE ARRESTED IN NORTH CAROLINA OVER 247,000 DOLLAR FRAUD"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/abujareporters.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/19696178_g7ugnpw4acfw5m_jpega5aa5c72ac873fe1d4d26b3db323e78e-680x430.jpeg\" width=\"512\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Wake County, North Carolina, have arrested Roseline Iyewande Ajeshola, a Nigerian-American and well-known Lagos socialite, over allegations that she posed as a financial broker to defraud a victim of more than $247,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to arrest warrants obtained from the Morrisville Police Department, Ajeshola, who resides in Katy, Texas, faces four felony counts of Obtaining Property by False Pretence, a Class C felony under North Carolina law.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators allege that she misrepresented herself as a broker and instructed the victim to transfer large sums of money into a bank account she controlled, before allegedly forwarding the funds to another party.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents list four transfers tied to the suspected scheme: $52,000, $130,000, $60,000, $5,000 The transactions reportedly occurred on February 26, 2025, totalling more than $247,000. Her arrest has drawn widespread attention online after her mugshot circulated on social media, while the case remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Authorities in Wake County, North Carolina, have arrested Roseline Iyewande Ajeshola, a Nigerian-American and well-known Lagos socialite, over allegations that she posed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Roseline-Ajeshola.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82345,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82342\/revisions\/82345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}