Public-record case file
About
Michael Beverly is a YouTube content creator (his channel · archived; previously @michaelsbeverly). In 2011, in Orange County, California, he pleaded guilty to two counts of a lewd act on a child aged 14 or 15, and he is a registered California sex offender.
That same year he legally changed his name from Michael Stephen Bird to Michael Stephen Beverly.
He also writes under the pen name Jayden Hunter.
A separate 2016 case left an outstanding arrest warrant: the court lists his release status as “Fugitive,” and California Department of Justice records list him as an absconder.
Name change
In 2011, Michael Beverly petitioned the Orange County court to change his legal name from Michael Stephen Bird to Michael Stephen Beverly. The email address on that petition matches the email he still uses publicly today — the same person, under two names.
Michael Beverly also writes under the pen name Jayden Hunter. Under that name he has a Goodreads author profile (archived) and one book currently available for sale.
Under that name he has also published thriller novels. Reviewers of those novels described them in their own words — quoted verbatim below, and linked in full:
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Undressed at Sea is supposed to be a thriller, but he [sic] thriller aspects were missing for me. I didn’t feel the tension or build up I was looking for. Instead the focus was violence towards women, countless sexual encounters, abuse and rape.
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This book didn’t work for me at all.
Criminal conviction
In 2011, in Orange County, under the name Michael Stephen Bird, he pleaded guilty to two counts of committing a lewd act on a child aged 14 or 15. A guilty plea is a conviction — this is on the court record, not an unproven accusation.
He is a registered California sex offender.
Court records establish that the victim was the subject's step-daughter — the minor daughter of his then-wife; the family relationship is documented in the 2012 protective-order matter below.
Conviction details
He pleaded guilty to both felony counts on 2011-03-11. Because he pleaded guilty, the case ended in a conviction rather than going to trial.
Sentence. The court sentenced him to 180 days in jail, three years of formal probation (which he completed), and restitution.
Probation violation. The next year, in 2012, the court found he had broken the terms of that probation and ordered him back to jail for another 90 days. This was part of the same case, not a new offense.
Protective orders (2011–2012)
2011 Criminal Protective Order (CR-161)
On March 11, 2011 — the day of the guilty pleas — the Orange County Superior Court issued a Criminal Protective Order (Judicial Council form CR-161, Penal Code § 136.2) as a condition of probation: a three-year no-contact, stay-away order protecting the victim in case 11NF0341.
2012 Request for a Domestic Violence Restraining Order (DV-100)
On June 14, 2012, a protected party petitioned the same court for a domestic-violence restraining order against the subject (form DV-100), citing a documented pattern of threatening and harassing emails and letters across 2011–2012. The record here contains the petition, not a signed order — so it is recorded as a request, not a granted order.
The petition was brought by the victim's mother, who was married to the subject at the time — the public-record basis on which the § 288(c)(1) victim is the subject's step-daughter.
Among the materials filed with the petition were emails the subject wrote himself. In them he told a recipient to “move to Texas because it is going to get really ugly” and warned they would “regret” it.
Wanted / fugitive
Michael Beverly is wanted. An arrest warrant is outstanding in the 2016 case. The Orange County court lists his release status as "Fugitive," and California Department of Justice records list him on their "Offender Absconders" record — the same California DOJ record that carries his registry ID, shown in the registration section above.
The case began with five misdemeanor counts of disobeying a domestic-relations court order. No plea and no disposition was ever entered on any of them, so on the charges themselves he stands charged, not convicted. What stands out is not the charges but that they were never answered: the court issued a warrant and marked him a fugitive.
Timeline
The full chronological record — every node dated at its true precision and linked to its primary source — is on its own page. See the full timeline →