A Colorado man accused of forging Chief Justice John Roberts’ signature on a fake Supreme Court order and posing as an NSA agent to erase his own Indiana criminal charges made his first federal court appearance in Denver after his arrest last Friday. Joshua M. Culver, who has also gone by the name Maverick A. Young, now faces a five-count federal indictment covering four counts of falsely impersonating a federal officer and one count of forging a federal judge’s signature and court seal.
The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana in July 2026 but stayed sealed until Culver’s arrest, according to Muck Rack. As reported by Cleveland.com, federal authorities say Culver used fabricated federal authority to influence local officials and legal proceedings across multiple Indiana counties, and that a federal public defender has been appointed to represent him.
A Forged Supreme Court Seal Aimed at Grant County
According to Breitbart News, the fake document at the center of the case, dated September 24, 2025, and titled Order of Dismissal With Prejudice, was submitted to Grant County Superior Court in Indiana specifically to try to wipe out pending state theft charges against Culver. Federal prosecutors allege the document included a counterfeit Supreme Court seal and a forged version of Roberts’ signature. Culver represented himself in the filing as a special master acting on behalf of the U.S. Supreme Court, and he warned that court officials could face arrest if his demands were not met.
Culver’s alleged scheme did not stop with the Supreme Court forgery. Court officials in Lake County, Indiana were pressured separately, the same case notes, after Culver had already been charged locally in January 2026 with threatening and harassing a judge in Lake County Superior Court, according to the ABA Journal. That prior state case became part of the legal trouble Culver allegedly tried to erase using fabricated federal credentials.
Posing as an NSA Hacking Chief
Days before the forged Supreme Court order surfaced, Culver allegedly contacted the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office in Lafayette, Indiana on September 19, 2025, claiming to be an NSA agent seeking a welfare check to locate his biological daughter while threatening “adverse action” against the department, per CyberScoop. The very next day, Culver allegedly called the workplace of a person identified in court filings as Individual A, claiming to be a federal agent investigating a child-kidnapping case and threatening the employee with felony arrest if they refused to cooperate, according to WFIN…