{"id":225101,"date":"2026-02-26T00:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fake-afl-soldiers-arrested\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:38:05","slug":"liberia-fake-afl-soldiers-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fake-afl-soldiers-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Fake&#8217; AFL Soldiers Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Monrovia \u2014 The Anti-Robbery Unit of the Liberia National Police (LNP) has arrested, investigated and charged two. The suspects were apprehended on February 15, 2026 at Barnersville Junction while dressed in full military camouflage uniforms, falsely presenting themselves as members of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to police reports, the suspects criminally pepper-sprayed a victim, identified as Frank Roberts and made away with his Bajaj motorbike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Investigations further revealed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250352.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Anti-Robbery Unit of the Liberia National Police (LNP) has arrested, investigated and charged two. The suspects were apprehended on February 15, 2026 at Barnersville Junction while dressed in full military camouflage uniforms, falsely presenting themselves as members of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL). According to police reports, the suspects criminally pepper-sprayed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[14427,258,256,4304,6891,4712,1107,257,4401,254],"class_list":["post-225101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-afl","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-fake","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}