{"id":1767,"date":"2012-04-24T08:46:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T12:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T12:59:41","slug":"couple-held-at-gunpoint-arrested-after-buying-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/04\/couple-held-at-gunpoint-arrested-after-buying-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple held at gunpoint, arrested after buying home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/couple-held-at-gunpoint-1423138.html\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/WrongfulArrest2_1368271l.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Kalonji family had just closed on a foreclosed home and were told by their real estate agent they should go over to the house and change the locks.<\/p>\n<p>But when Jean Kalonji and his wife, Angelica, started working at the home, an armed man and another person who appeared to be the man\u2019s son allegedly confronted them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe say to put the hands up and get out from the house, otherwise he would shoot us,\u201d the husband told Channel 2.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbors didn\u2019t believe the couple when they told them they had bought the home and called the Newton County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The Kalonjis didn\u2019t have the closing papers with them, so deputies arrested them, charged them with loitering and prowling and took them to jail.<\/p>\n<p>Yvette Harris, the couple\u2019s real estate agent, said they never should have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey rightfully own this house,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>Kalonji, who grew up in the Congo, said the experience brought back painful memories.\u201cThere, they put me down with the gun to my head, and come here, the same,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE<\/strong>: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/couple-held-at-gunpoint-1423138.html\">Couple held at gunpoint, arrested after buying home \u00a0| ajc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kalonji family had just closed on a foreclosed home and were told by their real estate agent they should go over to the house and change the locks. But when Jean Kalonji and his wife, Angelica, started working at the home, an armed man and another person who appeared to be the man\u2019s son&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[451,77,1116,952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}