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.
