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Timothy Michael Dever, 57, of Naperville, Illinois (no photo available,) and his co-defendant, Darris Gibson Moody, 57, of Waynesville (photo below,) were sentenced late Thursday in federal court in Asheville. [to 10 and 2 years respectively]
As the website’s administrator, Dever hosted, maintained, and provided content for [the People's Bureau of Investigation], including templates for court judgments, or “Writs of Execution,” issued by the “U.S. Environmental District Court,” a fictitious court that purportedly had convicted hundreds of public officials and private individuals of various bogus crimes. The website claimed that the writs gave private citizens, like Moody, the authority to conduct a “citizen’s arrest” of the individuals on the fake writs.
According to court documents and the sentencing hearing, Dever promoted the writs as a mechanism for removing federal, state, and local officials from their positions.
For example, one video on the website was a recorded radio talk show, where Dever and another individual discussed how private citizens could arrest “a sheriff, a judge and a governor,” who they claimed to have been convicted in the “highest court of the land.”
Court records show that the PBI website listed the personal identifying information of over 900 victims located in approximately 32 different states.
Timothy Michael Dever, 57, of Naperville, Illinois (no photo available,) and his co-defendant, Darris Gibson Moody, 57, of Waynesville (photo below,) were sentenced late Thursday in federal court in Asheville. [to 10 and 2 years respectively]
As the website’s administrator, Dever hosted, maintained, and provided content for [the People's Bureau of Investigation], including templates for court judgments, or “Writs of Execution,” issued by the “U.S. Environmental District Court,” a fictitious court that purportedly had convicted hundreds of public officials and private individuals of various bogus crimes. The website claimed that the writs gave private citizens, like Moody, the authority to conduct a “citizen’s arrest” of the individuals on the fake writs.
According to court documents and the sentencing hearing, Dever promoted the writs as a mechanism for removing federal, state, and local officials from their positions.
For example, one video on the website was a recorded radio talk show, where Dever and another individual discussed how private citizens could arrest “a sheriff, a judge and a governor,” who they claimed to have been convicted in the “highest court of the land.”
Court records show that the PBI website listed the personal identifying information of over 900 victims located in approximately 32 different states.
