The Department of Justice reports that Jennifer Peters, former acting director of the Lynchburg Community Corrections & Pretrial Services Department, has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison.
The 42-year-old Madison Heights resident was sentenced on December 11 after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy, obstruction of a proceeding before a U.S. agency, making false statements, and destruction of evidence.
Authorities say Peters accessed confidential, non-public law enforcement data from the Lynchburg Police Department Records Management System between November 2023 and January 2024. She shared the information with her then-boyfriend, Brendon Cole Webber, a probationer under her supervision. Webber later disseminated the information without authorization.
The DOJ states that after Webber was charged with unlawful firearm possession on November 30, 2023, Peters assisted him in evading an active arrest warrant and U.S. Marshals fugitive manhunt. In December 2023, she drove Webber from Lynchburg to Hughestown, Pennsylvania.
Peters subsequently lied to federal investigators regarding her relationship with Webber, his location, and the whereabouts of her cell phone, which she reportedly gave to a friend and later discarded in a landfill.
Webber was arrested in Pennsylvania on January 9, 2024, and previously sentenced to 57 months in prison after pleading guilty to state charges.
