Man charged with forging Chief Justice John Roberts’s signature, impersonating NSA agent

A man is facing federal charges over allegations that he impersonated a federal officer on several occasions and forged Chief Justice John Roberts’s signature on fabricated Indiana court documents. Joshua Culver was indicted last week in the Northern District of Indiana on four counts of falsely impersonating an officer of the United States and one count of forging the signature of a judge and court seal. He was taken into custody in Colorado and is expected to appear before a judge on Tuesday morning for a detention hearing, according to court records. Culver’s arrest was first reported by Bloomberg Law. The indictment alleges Culver falsely identified himself as an agent with the National Security Agency on at least two occasions last September, including in attempts to gain information about a family member. Authorities said that on another occasion in January, he claimed to be a “Special Master enforcing orders of the United States Supreme Court” to pressure a Lake County, Ind., judge into dismissing criminal cases and judgments against him. He is also accused of forging the chief justice’s signature and using a counterfeited seal on an order last September that purportedly directed a Grant County, Ind., court to drop separate theft charges against him. Culver is being represented by a court-appointed attorney with the federal public defender’s office in Denver.