A man has been arrested for allegedly submitting a forged document bearing Chief Justice John Roberts’ signature in an attempt to dismiss his criminal case in Indiana. According to court documents, Joshua M. Culver, who also goes by the name “Maverick A. Young,” was taken into custody last Friday in Colorado after a federal grand jury in Indiana charged him with multiple counts, including falsely impersonating a U.S. officer and forging a judge’s signature.
Culver is accused of filing a document called “Order of Dismissal With Prejudice” on September 24, 2025, in relation to a criminal case against him in Grant County Superior Court. This document allegedly featured a forged signature of Chief Justice Roberts along with a counterfeit Supreme Court seal to lend it legitimacy.
This isn’t the first time prosecutors claim Culver has misrepresented himself as a federal agent. Just five days before the alleged forgery, he supposedly impersonated a National Security Agency (NSA) agent in communications with the Tippecanoe County Sheriff’s Office. The indictment states that he made various requests that the sheriff’s office typically wouldn’t handle, such as asking for a welfare check on his daughter and inquiring about her whereabouts.
Culver reportedly sought information about sheriff’s office employees and made threats, suggesting he could take “adverse action” against them since he was posing as an NSA agent. On September 20, 2025, he called the workplace of someone referred to as “Individual A,” claiming to be a federal agent and alleging that this person was obstructing a federal kidnapping investigation. He even suggested that the individual could be arrested for committing a federal felony.
Moving forward to January 2026, Culver once again portrayed himself fraudulently, this time as a “Special Master enforcing orders of the United States Supreme Court,” sending communication to a Lake County clerk and demanding actions from a Superior Court judge, claiming authority to issue orders.
The indictment indicates that Culver threatened that if officials didn’t comply with his demands, he and U.S. Marshals would pursue arrests for various offenses ranging from impeding a federal agent to conspiracy. In February of the same year, he again adopted another false identity, calling himself the “Director of Tailored Access Operations,” a supposed intelligence agency.
Prosecutors assert that he filed a document titled “OFFICIAL SENSITIVE: TAILORED ACCESS OPERATIONS (TAO) COMPLIANCE DIRECTIVE” in Lake County Superior Court, claiming to be a “federal asset” involved in numerous investigations and dictating demands that purportedly came from a “federal directive,” including the dismissal of his case.
Reports suggest that Culver was arrested on August 21, and the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Colorado has been appointed to represent him. Efforts to reach the Supreme Court’s Public Information Office, the Federal Public Defender’s Office, and the Justice Department for comments are ongoing.
