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On September 5, 2024, a judge in Michigan sentenced two brothers, Samuel Ogoshi, 24, and Samson Ogoshi, 21, of Lagos, Nigeria, to over seventeen years in prison for their involvement in a social media sextortion scheme. The scheme targeted over 100 people, including eleven minors, and led to the death of Jordan DeMay, a seventeen-year-old high school student from Marquette, Michigan. The Ogoshi brothers were indicted in November 2022 and extradited to the U.S. from Nigeria in August 2023. Both men pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to exploit minors in April 2024 and will be on supervised release upon completing their seventeen-year sentence. Ezekial Roberts, a third suspect in the case, is currently in Nigeria awaiting extradition to the U.S. This is the first time Nigerians have successfully been prosecuted for sextortion in the U.S.