“The cars that he was posing with, he got them through me.”
Online Daejon Love looked successful. He claimed to be a San Francisco 49ers player and his Instagram was filled mainly with photos of himself playing football or posing in front of fancy cars.
He used that curated falsified image and an accomplice to allegedly defraud women out of roughly $1.3 million. Now federal prosecutors are coming after him
Those women weren’t the only people he’s now accused of scamming. The guy who rented him the exotice car he flexed with has chimed in about his experience with the scammer and claims he owes him money too to the tune of about $10,000.
In two videos with more than 1 million combined views, Juan Orozco (@jjo1995), who owns an exotic car rental service, explains how Love allegedly accumulated a nearly $10,000 balance with his company.
“Some of the cars that he was posing with, he got them through me,” Orozco says.
Orozco explains that a person posing as Love’s agent initially contacted him and said an NFL player wanted to rent a car. Orozco requested Love’s driver’s license and insurance information, then called the insurer to verify the policy. He says Love had full coverage and a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 listed on the policy.
Everything appeared to check out. Love reportedly paid a deposit, rented a Lamborghini Huracán Performante and began paying for extensions every two days. Orozco says the rate started at roughly $1,100 per day, although he lowered it as the rental continued and payments were made on time.
Love kept the Huracán for about 16 days and took it to Arizona, according to Orozco, who has a tracker on these luxury cars he rents. The trip allegedly pushed the car well beyond the rental agreement’s mileage allowance, racking up more than $5,000 in excess mileage charges. While a chunk was taken from Love’s deposit, he still owed about $3,300.
But since Love had been making his regular rental payments and had already supplied a deposit for another vehicle, Orozco wasn’t overly concerned, even swapping the Huracán for a modified Lamborghini Urus.
This time, however, he says the company capped the mileage. Orozco says excess mileage on the Lamborghinis cost approximately $5 per mile because of depreciation.
And he adds that Love leaned heavily into the NFL image. Orozco says he would arrive dressed in 49ers gear, including a jersey, headband and helmet.
“I knew something was off, but the guy was paying,” Orozco says. “You know, he was taking care of the cars. We didn’t think too much of it.”
Orozco says Love kept the Urus for roughly 13 days but stopped paying after an April 16 payment of about $1,100. When once he was a couple days late on payment, the rental company remotely disabled the car.
Love then sent a payment, and the company reactivated it. But Orozco says Love fell behind again and became difficult to reach so they disabled the car a second time.
“We understand it, but we’re a business,” Orozco recalls telling Love. “So we gotta make sure we know where the car’s at and that you’re paying for everything that you’re using.”
Three days later, Orozco says Love sent him a message with the location of a Los Angeles hotel. The Urus was parked there with its key inside. Orozco took an Uber to Los Angeles, collected the SUV and drove it back.
Then he checked the mileage.
According to Orozco, Love had driven the Urus more than 1,000 miles beyond the agreed limit, adding about $5,000 to the bill. Combined with the remaining Huracán mileage charges and other unpaid costs, Orozco says Love owes him $9,927.
“He said that he was gonna pay me, and he wouldn’t pay,” Orozco says.
In a second video, Orozco shares a FaceTime-style recording Love sent allegedly reassuring the rental company that he’d pay what he owed.
In the video Love blames his delayed responses on moving around with family, friends and teammates, as well as working out and being tired. He insists that the company’s messages and calls still reached him.
Love tells him his “plan” is to pay for one day of the car and then promise to catch up by Sunday and said he would also handle the remaining mileage charges from the Huracán. Then he floated switching into another vehicle, maybe two, on Monday while continuing to pay down what he already owed.
“I’m gonna keep rocking with y’all,” Love says. “You know what I’m saying? I’m not going nowhere.”
He also pointed to the tracking device on the Lamborghini as proof that he was not attempting to disappear.
“Obviously, y’all got the tracker on the car. It ain’t hard to get in contact with me,” he says.
Orozco says those payments never came through.
Who Is Daejon Love, and What Charges in He Facing?
Daejon Labrayae Love is accused of presenting himself as a wealthy real estate investor and, at times, a player for the San Francisco 49ers while allegedly helping run a yearslong investment fraud scheme. The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon says financial records show Love and Taylor Jamie Chan received approximately $1.3 million from 26 identified victims. The FBI believes there may be additional victims.
Love and Chan were charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Federal prosecutors allege that the pair created fictitious investments and used lies, falsified financial accounts and fabricated communications to obtain money from women in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California.
According to court documents summarized by the US Attorney’s Office, the alleged scheme began in 2022 and continued until the pair’s arrests last month. Love purportedly met most of the women through dating apps. Chan allegedly posed as his financial adviser, including during three-way FaceTime calls designed to make the supposed investments appear legitimate.
“Love convinced many of the victims they were in sincere romantic relationships,” the office said.
Prosecutors say Love portrayed himself as an NFL player or a wealthy investor, displayed a lavish lifestyle online and promised enormous returns. He allegedly used apps to create fake bank and investment balances, while Chan participated in fabricated messages and calls that appeared to validate the investments. Some women allegedly took out personal loans after Love assured them that they would quickly be repaid.
Federal prosecutors say Love blocked communication with women once they had no more money to invest or began asking too many questions. None of the identified victims interviewed by investigators reported receiving investment payouts or being repaid.
Authorities arrested the pair at Boise Airport on Aug. 24. Investigators say Love was in Idaho to allegedly meet new victims. The office also says he used several names, including Jon Love, Daejon Love, Avril Lyto Love and Jordan Love.
Ayana Velasquez told CBS News that she met Love through a dating app in 2021 and went on one date with him. At the time, he allegedly called himself “Jonathan” and talked about wanting a future with her that included children and a house.
Velasquez said Love also claimed his family was among the wealthiest in Switzerland, owned property in the US and employed a private chef. She grew skeptical and stopped responding.
Love allegedly contacted her again in 2024 with a voice memo claiming he was now in the NFL. Velasquez said he sent more than a dozen photos and videos portraying himself as a 49ers player, including footage apparently filmed at Levi’s Stadium and a clip that appeared to show fans waving at him through a bus window.
“It just seemed too good to be true,” she said.
Velasquez checked the files’ metadata and discovered that some were screen recordings rather than original footage.
“Once I saved those into my camera roll, they said that they were screen recorded,” she said.
She told CBS that she immediately blocked Love. Although Velasquez said she did not fall for the alleged scheme, she could understand how other women may have believed the image he presented.
Reactions to the video included a mix of fascination, jokes, and disgust.
“I’m not lying to my fullest potential,” a top comment joked.
“Him always being out in gear is pan fryinggggg me,” a person said.
“I know them voice memos were long ash and annoying,” another wrote.
“This needs to be case study. This is a problem,” a commenter added.
Motor1 reached out to Orozco via his company’s email and his TikTok direct message. Love’s Instagram appears to have been deleted or disabled and there is no public information on who his lawyer is. We’ll be sure to update this if Orozco responds.
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