Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo, Threats, Massachusetts 2025

A Wilbraham man pleaded guilty to making violent threats on social media targeting public figures, private individuals, and children.

Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo, also known as “Jonathan Funwayo Nyawo,” “Michael Jacobs” “Robert, Jacobs,” and “Carl Fields,” 37, pleaded guilty to 13 counts of interstate transmission of threatening communications and one count of stalking through facilities of interstate commerce.

The crimes were committed between July 30, 2024 and Oct. 1, 2024, when Nyawo posted various threatening communications on X (formerly known as Twitter). These threats explicitly referenced killing, shooting, or bombing; targeted a wide variety of public figures, private individuals and sensitive public locations such as shopping malls and an elementary school; and often urged Islamic terrorist groups or holy warriors to commit these acts of violence.

Nyawo’s threats included threats to kill an elected United States official (and their family), a former United States official (and their family); a former member of a Massachusetts police department (and their family); two private individuals; local officials and their family members; the children of Wilbraham and Boston; members of the Wilbraham Police Department and Wilbraham Fire Department (and their families); and targeted two shopping malls and an elementary school in Springfield, among others.

Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo also used X to engage in a course of conduct with the intent to harass and intimidate the elected United States official, their spouse, their child, their child’s spouse and their grandchildren.

U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni scheduled sentencing for Oct. 23, 2025.

Funwayo Mbilini Nyawo faces up to 5 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000 for each of the 14 counts.

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