Was hairdresser arrested for making voodoo dolls from customer hair? Fact Check

Claims that a hairdresser was arrested for making voodoo dolls from his customer’s hair are spreading online.

FALSE

The claims trace back to a website called WorldNewsDailyReport.com, which published a story under the headline “Hairdresser arrested for making voodoo dolls from customer’s hair”. In part it read –

A hairdresser from New-Orleans was arrested this morning and accused of using his customers’ hair to create voodoo dolls and cast curses upon them.
According to the New-Orleans Police Department (NOPD), 29-year old Enoch Azaka collected the hair he cut from his customers at the Old City Barber Shop and used it in black magic rituals.

The story has been completely fabricated, and started by WorldNewsDailyReport, a website that deals exclusively in publishing and spreading spoof news.

It has a tag line that reads “where facts don’t matter” under its logo, and a disclaimer in the footer of each page that reads “World News Daily Report assumes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content.” This story was first published on WorldNewsDailyReport in 2018.

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As such, readers are advised not to take the articles it publishes seriously. This site was also responsible for starting a (at the time of writing) rumour that President Obama was running for the position of the President of Kenya. It has a history of spreading numerous viral hoaxes over the last decade.

The man pictured in the photo is actually a man named Antoine Petty who was arrested in 2017 on murder charges.