So when Okegbola opened her door in Chicago earlier this month, she expected to be handed employment paperwork. She didn't expect handcuffs.
Okegbola, 28, has traveled around the world since Broward County officials started looking for her, but the long journey ended over the weekend right where it started.
After spending Friday night in the Osceola County Jail while transporting officers got some rest, Okegbola was booked Saturday into the Broward County Jail on a charge of interference of custody. Her bail is set at $100,000.
Broward County authorities had been looking for Okegbola since she left the country last summer with her 1 1/2-year-old son.
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The Cook County Sheriff's Office in Chicago got involved last month when Broward authorities told them Okegbola might be in the Chicago area.
Cook County fugitive investigators said Okegbola left Florida with the boy while engaged in a custody dispute. She returned to her native Nigeria with the boy in July 2009 after the boy's father verbally agreed to the trip, as long as he would be able to contact and visit his child in Nigeria, investigators said.
Once the woman arrived in Africa, she denied the boy's father contact with him and then returned to the United States, leaving the boy with relatives in Nigeria.
The family in Nigeria initially shielded the boy from officials with the U.S. Embassy, but eventually the Nigerian government was able to confirm that he is in good health, investigators said.
Once they were contacted by Broward authorities, Cook County fugitive investigators learned Okegbola had received a nursing degree from Chicago's Samland Institute of Allied Health and Technology.
They checked out addresses where she had claimed to live and then began calling phone numbers she had used while she was a student. When she answered one of the numbers, an investigator posed as an executive with a local nursing agency. She gave the man the address of the South Side home where she was staying.
She answered the door and was arrested without incident. Investigators said they found no evidence that the boy had been at the residence recently. Broward authorities arrived in Chicago on Wednesday to return her to Florida.
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