This demands to be made into a comic book: The Charlotte Observer reports on the strangely fascinating case of David Race Bannon (aka David Wayne Dilley), who claimed to have been an Interpol agent and presented himself to police and TV networks as an expert on human trafficking.
Bannon even wrote a book, Race Against Evil: The Secret Missions of the Interpol Agent Who Tracked the World’s Most Sinister Criminals, which the agency calls “deceptive and irresponsible fantasy.”
Bannon, who took his pseudonym from the family bodyguard on Jonny Quest, was arrested in January on charges of criminal impersonation, computer crime and attempted theft. In April, he pleaded guilty to one count of criminal impersonation. Prosecutors say they’re not looking for jail time; instead, they want Bannon fined based on income from his book.
To say Bannon led a double life is a bit of an understatement.
“He said he got the scar on his back from being stabbed in a Korean riot,” The Observer’s Tommy Tomlinson writes. “His ex-wife says he got it from a kidney operation.
“He said he led a 1998 raid on the Florida branch of a worldwide child-prostitution ring, rescuing an 8-year-old girl and killing one of her kidnappers with a knife to the throat.
“Investigators say he was teaching computer classes at a community college in Raleigh.”
Intrigue, espionage … and community college. That’s the stuff of a John LeCarre novel.
There’s much more at the link. Plus, there’s a Wikipedia entry devoted to Bannon, with links to other articles.
June 27th, 2006 at 11:44 am
He’s no David Brock Samson.
July 2nd, 2006 at 2:37 am
How bizarre, I was just reading about this guy on bullshido.com. Bullshit memoirs are an interest of mine, I’d love if it this guy became a Minor Internet Fad, just to further rub in the absurdity of his claims. Maybe we can force some kind of public statement out of him, a la James Frey?
November 1st, 2007 at 7:27 am
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