*As ICE Places Immigration Hold

A United States-based Nigerian basketball player, Daniel Adegboyega, has been charged with first-degree rape by forcible compulsion in Alabama after police accused him of sexually assaulting a woman in his apartment.

Adegboyega, 21, was arrested in July by the Jacksonville Police Department at his apartment in Jacksonville, Alabama, according to a report by WVTM 13 cited on Tuesday.

The Nigerian, who recently joined Jacksonville State University’s men’s basketball team ahead of the new season, is being held at the Calhoun County Jail without bond.

Court records also showed that the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed an immigration hold on him.

Investigators told the court that the alleged victim had visited Adegboyega’s apartment on July 28 to watch a movie. During the visit, she allegedly sent a secret text message to her roommate after Adegboyega made unwanted sexual advances.

After several unanswered calls and text messages, Adegboyega reportedly answered one of the roommate’s calls using the woman’s phone and claimed she was in the bathroom.

Concerned for her safety, the roommate contacted the Jacksonville Police Department and requested a welfare check.

Officers reportedly arrived at the apartment around 2 a.m. and found the woman visibly distressed. Police later took statements from both Adegboyega and the alleged victim and collected evidence, including the woman’s trousers, which reportedly had bloodstains.

The report said the woman alleged that Adegboyega forcibly raped her twice that night, but he denied using force.

He was taken into custody that night and has remained at the Calhoun County Jail.

During a bond hearing, ICE agent Ty Unruh testified that Adegboyega entered the United States on an F-1 student visa that expired in 2023.

According to the report, Unruh said that if Adegboyega is granted bond, he would be transferred to an immigration detention facility in Louisiana to begin immigration proceedings that could lead to his deportation to Nigeria.

However, Adegboyega’s host father, Ryan Parlee, disputed the immigration testimony, describing it as inaccurate.

Parlee said Adegboyega attended high school in Iowa for four years and graduated in 2022 without returning to Nigeria. He argued that the immigration issues stemmed from a family trip to Mexico in 2022 and later worsened after Adegboyega transferred from the University of South Florida to UC Riverside.

He further alleged that UC Riverside failed to file the required immigration documents before Adegboyega’s transfer to Jacksonville State University this summer, resulting in the lapse of his visa status.

Adegboyega has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

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