A Lynchburg man has entered a guilty plea to federal charges related to firearms and conspiracy. Brendon Cole Webber, 28, was arrested in May 2024 for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pled guilty to one count of illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and two counts of conspiracy against the United States.
Court documents reveal that Webber was under supervision by the Lynchburg Community Corrections & Pretrial Services Department (LCCPS) starting in 2022. In 2023, Jennifer Leigh Peters became Acting Director of LCCPS and began a romantic relationship with Webber, whom she supervised. Peters had access to non-public law enforcement materials through the Lynchburg Police Department’s Records Management System (RMS), which is protected.
Between November 11, 2023, and January 9, 2024, Webber and Peters conspired for Webber to access RMS information without authorization. Peters provided him with confidential material from RMS, which he then disseminated.
On November 30, 2023, charges were filed against Webber for unlawfully possessing a firearm under Virginia law. A warrant was issued for his arrest amid an active U.S. Marshal’s fugitive manhunt. Around December 19, 2023, Peters drove Webber from Lynchburg to Hughestown, Pennsylvania at his instruction to obstruct the fugitive mission. During this time, they booked a hotel room en route. Webber was eventually arrested on January 9, 2024.
Webber had earlier pled guilty to state charges including conspiracy to commit computer fraud and obstruction of justice along with unlawful possession of a firearm.
The case also involved an incident where law enforcement was alerted by citizens after witnessing Webber fall out of a moving vehicle and shoot at it before fleeing toward downtown Lynchburg’s Family Dollar store. Witnesses reported that he attempted to enter their vehicle as police arrived on scene. Officers found items including a loaded handgun and suspected methamphetamine in the vehicle where he had been sitting.
Acting United States Attorney Zachary T. Lee announced the plea alongside Stanley M. Meador from the FBI’s Richmond Division.
The investigation is being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the City of Lynchburg Police Department with Assistant U.S. Attorney Vito Iaia prosecuting the case.
