Wednesday, May 7, 2025 - A Nigerian man, Imoleayo
Samuel Aina, aka “Alice Dave,” 27, entered a plea of guilty before United
States District Court Judge Joel H. Slomsky to cyberstalking, interstate threat
to injure reputation, receiving proceeds of extortion, money laundering conspiracy,
and four counts of wire fraud, in connection with the sexual extortion and
d3ath of a 20-year-old man, Jack Sullivan, who committed suicide in the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.
United States Attorney David Metcalf announced this in a
statement issued by the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.
Aina and co-defendant Samuel Olasunkanmi Abiodun, 25, were
arrested on a complaint and warant in Nigeria, taken into custody by the FBI on
July 31, 2024, and extradited to the United States to face charges in
this case.
They and another Nigerian co-defendant, Afeez Olatunji
Adewale, 25, were then charged by indictment in August 2024.
Aina is scheduled to be sentenced on August 11 and faces a
statutory maximum of lifetime imprisonment.
Abiodun pleaded guilty in December to money laundering
conspiracy and four counts of wire fraud. He is scheduled to be sentenced on
June 10 and faces a statutory maximum of 100 years’ imprisonment.
Adewale has also been charged with money laundering
conspiracy and four counts of wire fraud. He remains in Nigeria, pending
extradition to the U.S.
The case was investigated by the FBI and the Abington
Township Police Department and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States
Attorney Patrick Brown.
Aina and Abiodun were extradited to the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania with assistance of the Justice Department’s Office of
International Affairs, the FBI Legal Attaché in Abuja, and the FBI.
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.
Jack Sullivan, a 2021 graduate of Abington Senior High
School and Kutztown University sophomore, received a flirtatious Instagram
message from a user who called themselves Alice Dave in January 2023.
The two exchanged messages, and later intimate photos on
Snapchat.
Later that night, “Alice’s flirty texts were replaced with
threats that if Sullivan didn’t send money, she would share the photos with his
family, friends, and campus community “all u have to do is cooperate with me
and I will not expose u, if you block me I will ruin your life,” Alice wrote,
according to law enforcement records. “don’t try to act smart I know where you
live.”
Sullivan sent roughly $2,800 but Alice refused to delete the
photos. Less than 24 hours after the first message, he walked onto train
tracks leading to the Jenkintown SEPTA station.
Three minutes later a passing train struck and k!lled him.
Originally ruled a suicide, the coroner’s office in
Montgomery County changed the cause of d3ath to homicide following an
investigation.
Sullivan’s parents filed a civil lawsuit in December 2023
against the social media companies which own Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat
for failing to remove predatory accounts.
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