BOSTON — A Wilbraham man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield for allegedly posting multiple violent threats on social media, targeting public figures, private citizens, children in Wilbraham and Boston, and an elementary school in Springfield, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced today.
Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo, also known as “Jonathan Funwayo Nyawo,” “Michael Jacobs” “Robert, Jacobs,” and “Carl Fields,” 36, was indicted on 13 counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications and one count of stalking through facilities of interstate commerce. Nyawo was initially arrested on February 5, 2025, in the Southern District of Florida and was ordered held in detention pending his upcoming appearance in federal court in Springfield.
The indictment alleges that between July 30, 2024, and October 1, 2024, Nyawo posted several threats on X (formerly Twitter), including threats to kill an elected U.S. official and their family, a former U.S. official and their family, a former Massachusetts police officer and their family, a private individual, local officials and their families, children in Wilbraham and Boston, members of the Wilbraham Police and Fire Departments and their families, and children at an elementary school in Springfield, among others.
Between August 17, 2024, and October 1, 2024, Nyawo allegedly used X to harass and intimidate an elected U.S. official, their spouse, child, child’s spouse, and grandchildren.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Breslow of the Springfield branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts is prosecuting the case.
