Nigerian Man arrested for online dating scam

Lagos - A Nigerian resident faces charges that
he set up an online dating profile using a
photo of Montana's attorney general and
falsified stories about overseas business
problems to scam several women.
Felony charges against Kazeem Owonla were
filed last month in Indiana, where one woman
reported sending more than $100 000 to a
man who represented himself as John Tony
Hagan, an electrical engineer who was working
in Egypt.
Owonla, 44, was arrested Wednesday when he
got off an airplane in Atlanta and waived
extradition to Indiana Thursday during a
hearing in a magistrate court. Public records
did not indicate if Owonla has an attorney.
His bond in Indiana is set at $150 000 cash,
enough to cover the women's losses,
prosecutors said.
The Indiana woman who first complained said
she met "Hagan" online in January 2014 and by
the next month he was asking her for money.