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SERIES: Who runs your community? Five stories about predators with powerful friends in fandom.

Trust put a predator in a power position

In Colorado, Jacob Kovar was a nazifur sex offender who was convicted after his arrest warrant credited investigation by Dogpatch Press. Kovar did crimes as head of security for a furry convention, until they got tipped and fired him. After years in jail, Kovar returned to the community with friends in a regular furry group, while he was allegedly violating parole to be online. Kovar had his parole revoked and was arrested again in late 2025.

This is an update to a 2021 story. To review, Kovar first came to notice as right-hand man of notorious nazifur Lee “Foxler” Miller. Kovar was already a convicted sex offender when Miller made him admin for his Furry Raiders nazifur group. The Furry Raiders acted as a revolving door for numerous predators loyal to Miller. When Miller himself was charged with three child sex felonies, Kovar jumped in front of the bullet. His bright idea — while on parole — was to intimidate a witness in Miller’s case to get the charges dropped. Kovar briefly became a con head of security, and targeted Dogpatch Press with hope to cause false reporting against the witness. Instead it was reported to police, Kovar and a Furry Raider accomplice were arrested, and Kovar got a new sex offender record with jail he completed in 2024.

This update looks at what happened between Kovar’s return from jail and going back in 2025.

How did he get trusted again?

In 2019, when Kovar used a false cover identity, he became real Head of Security of a small new furry con. The con hadn’t started and he got no access to goers, but he used the title for influence for crimes. When a sex offender on parole can do that, and a reporter has to figure it out, what diligence are we getting from leaders? On the other hand, fandom and volunteerism built the new convention without established organizers, who were also misled by a predator. When the con got tipped about Kovar’s new arrest, they gave straightforward engagement and took action to fire him, so there wasn’t more criticism towards the con.

After Kovar spent several years of jail, he had his chance to do better, but in 2025, multiple sources made contact after reading about him. Some of them weren’t in the furry community and were noticing ongoing shady behavior.

Here’s what tippers believed. With Kovar’s parole conditions, he wasn’t supposed to be online, but had enablers who allegedly kept a fursuit for him and gave him an account under someone else’s name to get around parole conditions. Dogpatch Press reviewed a hobby group he used and found nearly 1800 posts by Kovar, and his identity wasn’t a well-kept secret. Members referenced knowing his workplace and shared photos with his face and tattoos. They apparently also made Kovar admin for over 150 members.

A tip was received about Kovar going back on an ankle monitor in July 2025:

Kovar was arrested again in September 2025:

Pueblo County Sheriff record

Dogpatch Press was shown a private document with protected source that officially revoked his parole. A nonfurry source also sent a tip that police brought Kovar to his former workplace in the back of a squad car, to ask what contacts with minors he had at work.

Results of further investigation 

Several points stood out about Kovar’s activity in a furry hobby group:

(1) The September arrest shows Kovar really was breaking parole like tips said. Please send tips if you have more information about enablers.

(2) The chair of the con that fired Kovar in 2019 was interacting with him in the group. Reporter questions about it got straightforward engagement. The furry group didn’t belong to the con chair, who was using it for help with personal projects, and took action to make Kovar’s behavior unwelcome at the con.

(3) Why did the furry hobby group make Kovar an admin? Questions to the group owner found it wasn’t what it looked like. The owner said that the admin title was just a tag, and he wasn’t part of the actual admin chat. Kovar told them he was making effort to change and be a better person, while downplaying his charges to mislead about what they were. The owner was surprised to see legal records, said he was misinformed, and took action about it.

In personal life, sometimes people choose to stay friends with someone who got charges and give them second chances. In this case, it appears that a recidivist who manipulated trust and power hasn’t changed that much.

Furries may learn that fan-based loyalty can be vulnerable to manipulation. We can be understanding but ask for better. Some leaders who hide suspicious behavior can be criticized for corruption, but straightforward engagement makes a big difference.

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