{"id":78624,"date":"2025-11-12T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78624"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:19:19","slug":"georgian-police-arrests-akon-over-new-mexico-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/12\/georgian-police-arrests-akon-over-new-mexico-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian Police Arrests Akon Over New Mexico Warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American-Senegalese singer Akon, 52, was arrested in Georgia on Friday, November 7, over an outstanding warrant from Roswell, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Chamblee Police spotted his white Tesla via a Flock camera system linked to the active warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Joshua Rosa found Akon outside Tint World on Chamblee Dunwoody Road and confirmed his identity before taking him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Akon was transported to DeKalb County Jail, booked, and released about six hours later. Officer Rosa said the singer remained calm, cooperative, and aware of the warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The DeKalb County Sheriff\u2019s Office confirmed the brief detention but did not disclose details of the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola American-Senegalese singer Akon, 52, was arrested in Georgia on Friday, November 7, over an outstanding warrant from Roswell, New Mexico. Chamblee Police spotted his white Tesla via a Flock camera system linked to the active warrant. Officer Joshua Rosa found Akon outside Tint World on Chamblee Dunwoody Road and confirmed his identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78626,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78624\/revisions\/78626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}