RYAN J. REILLY MARCH 8, 2012, 4:20 PM 5053 53
Federal prosecutors have moved to collect $35,000 from a California lawyer who signed an unsecured bond on behalf of Christopher Doyon, the homeless Anonymous hacker who called himself “Commander X,” after Doyon reportedly fled to Canada.

Doyon was arrested by the FBI back in September and charged with taking part in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the city of Santa Cruz’s computer servers in protest of an anti-camping law. “Commander X” put out a press release on Feb. 11 claiming he used an “underground railroad and network of safe houses” to reach the Canadian border where he hiked through the forest to the “relative safety of the nation of Canada.” The letter demanded that the U.S. drop charges against the other Anonymous defendants and that President Obama “immediately grant a full executive pardon to Bradley Manning, and order an end to the investigation of Julian Assange.”

Ed Fry, a lawyer who has been involved in the the Occupy movement in Santa Cruz, told TPM he met Doyon during the summer of 2010 and put up the bond to help out a friend. He doesn’t think the law will catch up to Doyon, who joined up with the Occupy movement after being released.

“I don’t expect him to be caught. He’s pretty Wile E. Coyote,” said Fry, adding that he last talked to Doyon around Christmas. He said signing the bond was a risk he had to take....