Nigerian national pleads guilty to cyberstalking and s@xual extortion linked to U.S. man’s death

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.

Source: LIB