A 26-year-old Nigerian man, Afeez Olatunji Adewale, was extradited from Nigeria to the United States to face charges related to the s3xual extortion and d3ath of a 20-year-old man, Jack Sullivan, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
United States Attorney David Metcalf made the announcement in a press statement issued by the Department on Justice on February 18, 2026.
Adewale is charged by indictment with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy. He appeared in federal magistrate court in Philadelphia before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lynne A. Sitarski on Wednesday afternoon.
Adewale was arrested in Nigeria on August 17, 2023, as part of a wider operation with the FBI to apprehend s3xual extortionists targeting minors in the United States.
He was extradited to the United States on Friday, February 13, 2026, with the assistance of the Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché in Abuja, and the FBI, who took him into custody.
“The support and assistance of Nigerian security authorities was essential to this effort, notably that of Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, the Federal Ministry of Justice’s International Criminal Justice Cooperation Department, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,” the statement read.
Adewale’s co-defendants, Imoleayo Samuel Aina, aka “Alice Dave,” 27, and Samuel Olasunkanmi Abiodun, 26, were extradited to the U.S. in August 2024.
Abiodun pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud and was sentenced by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky in June 2025 to five years in prison.
Aina later pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, interstate threat to injure reputation, receiving proceeds of extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and wire fraud, and was sentenced by Judge Slomsky in October 2025 to six years in prison.
This case was investigated by FBI Philadelphia’s Fort Washington Resident Agency and the Abington Township Police Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Brown.
“The charges and allegations contained in the indictment are merely accusations. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty in court,” the statement added
