Update: Couple held at gunpoint, arrested after buying home (Charges Dropped), Neighbors charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment

The Newton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating why a couple was confronted at gunpoint by neighbors and then arrested and forced to spend the night in jail when they tried to move into the home they had just purchased, Channel 2 Action News reported.

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’s son allegedly confronted them.

“He say to put the hands up and get out from the house, otherwise he would shoot us,” the husband told Channel 2.

The neighbors didn’t believe the couple when they told them they had bought the home and called the Newton County Sheriff’s Office. The Kalonjis didn’t have the closing papers with them, so deputies arrested them, charged them with loitering and prowling and took them to jail.

Yvette Harris, the couple’s real estate agent, said they never should have been arrested.

“They rightfully own this house,” Harris said.

A Newton County man and his son who authorities said held a gun on the new owners of a neighboring home were arrested Monday night and charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal trespass.

stupid people will never go away, they are born every single day.

stupid people will never go away, they are born every single day.

Clearly the idiots with the guns should have just called the police if they were worried about illegal activity. they have no right to pull a gun on these people and should be arrested and charged. the police should have gathered a little info before throwing them in jail. how farking incompetent can you be?

The couple should sue.

We dont know what has happened in the past with this neighborhood or even the house. Its possible people are tired of the illegal traffic the empty homes are generating.

Other than the quote from the real estate agent, we don't know anything.

Even more don't have guns because they are too paranoid and prefer to be unprotected and depend on the police to protect them.