Man Claimed Fort Meade Training, Voted Using Fake ID

FORT MEADE, MD — A man whose identity federal officials are still trying to unravel was sentenced to prison Tuesday for passport and voter fraud. The man who claims his name is Cheyenne Moody Davis assumed that identity, says the US Attorney's Office for Maryland, and also fraudulently claimed he trained at Fort Meade, which the Army says is not true.

United States District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced defendant “John Doe” to 42 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for charges of passport fraud, social security fraud, aggravated identity theft, and two counts of voter fraud. According to trial evidence, Doe has lived under the assumed identity of a United States citizen born in the United States Virgin Islands.

The Diplomatic Security Service says Doe is about 41 to 44 years old, 5’8”, with light brown eyes and has previously gone by the pseudonyms “Chris” or “Richie.” He is believed to have arrived in South Florida in the late 1990s, and moved to Maryland in the mid-2000s. Doe may be from Antigua, Barbuda, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, or Jamaica. He has a Jamaican accent.

By the summer of 1997, the defendant used the victim’s personal information to obtain a series of driver’s licenses and identification cards, including a Maryland state identification card and multiple Maryland driver’s licenses. Building upon these documents, the defendant also obtained a United States passport and a Social Security card, and voted in the 2016 presidential election using the stolen identity.

On June 21, 2015, the defendant was interviewed by Diplomatic Security Service investigators about his passport applications and claims that he is Cheyenne Moody Davis. The defendant lied about serving as a military police officer in the 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade from 2005 through 2008, prosecutors said, and told agents that he completed his military police training at Fort Knox and Fort Hood. He was unable to produce a military identification card and said he lost it, but during the interview showed State Department investigators military-standard dog tags bearing the name “Cheyenne M Davis,” and the real Davis’ Social Security number.

The government later learned that John Doe purchased these dog tags online, along with a number of other military-related items, including patches for the 200th Military Police Command, military police, and uniform patches bearing the name “Davis.”

Doe’s social media accounts showed that he told multiple users that he was in the U.S. Army or Army Reserve, and worked at the Fort Meade military base in Maryland. The U.S. Army 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade confirmed that no one ever served in the U.S. Army under the name or PII of Cheyenne Moody Davis. The U.S. Army also confirmed that military police are not trained at Fort Knox or Fort Hood.

If anyone has any information on the identity of “John Doe,” who has used the name Cheyenne Moody Davis, they are asked to e-mail the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) at DS_WFO_TIPS@state.gov (link sends e-mail). More information can be found at https://www.state.gov/m/ds/rls/274463.htm.

Photos of John Doe using the name Cheyenne Moody Davis, the more recent taken in 2013 and the earlier taken in 1997, courtesy of the Diplomatic Security Service