Abegunde Didn’t Intend To Flee US On The Day Of Arrest, says FBI Agent
More facts continued to emerge regarding the unjust and unfair incarceration of a Nigerian US-based, Olufolajimi Abegunde who was innocently convicted by the FBI and US Prosecutors on frame-up charges.
Investigation revealed that, during Abegunde’s trial, FBI Agent, Carlos Carrasquillo who was at the airport for his [Abegunde] arrest testified that that Abegunde did not intend to flee the U.S. soil on that fateful day.
Abegunde was actually at the airport to reschedule his flight as he was hitherto not able to receive a long awaited Immigration travel document from the United States Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS).
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In addition, Carrasquillo’s testimony also showed that one week before his unlawful arrest, Abegunde had successfully applied for what is described as a cost saving tactic for rescheduling flights at the Atlanta airport.
It can be recalled that on February 7, 2018, FBI agents arrested Olufolajimi Abegunde while on his way to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) in Atlanta Georgia to reschedule a flight to the Dominican Republic.
Upon his unlawful arrest, Abegunde was further slammed with false charges comprising of Wire Fraud Conspiracy, Money Laundering Conspiracy and Aggravated Identity Theft in the Western District of Tennessee.
Meanwhile, Abegunde’s case was not the first time a black man was being wrongfully accused and convicted of crimes they did not commit by the US courts upon frame up charges and unsubstantiated allegations by the prosecutors.
Notable example is that of a Missouri black America man, Kevin Strickland who was wrongfully convicted of a triple murder in 1978 and imprisoned in 1979 at the age of 18, but later exonerated and released after spending 42 years in Missouri prison.
By Emergency Digest
