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Thomas Wayne Gibler, 38, has served time behind bars for attempted robbery, burglary, theft, drug trafficking, escape and high-speed police chases. He is currently serving 2 1/2 years for the latter. He’s been locked up after being accused of armed robberies, was charged with allegedly shooting at a former girlfriend and repeatedly has been caught by police with illegal drugs, sometimes in large quantities, including crack cocaine, PCP, LSD and marijuana. He and Shawna met on an internet dating site

Remember what got us all interested in Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde? What put her on our radar? The suspicious shooting of her ex husband. Her alleged “rape”, which we proved to be a hoax. And finally, Shawna getting ambushed and shot as she walked home through an alley from a bar a couple of weeks after the “rape”.

Well, the Everett Herald, that bastion of investigative journalism revealed this past weekend that a cocaine-addicted criminal who has 15 felony convictions and once nearly lopped off a man’s arm with a sword was the close companion of border activist Shawna Forde this winter during a flurry of violence in Everett.

Thomas Wayne Gibler, 38, has served time behind bars for attempted robbery, burglary, theft, drug trafficking, escape and high-speed police chases.

Gibler is now back in prison serving time on his latest felony conviction. He represents another Forde compatriot whose criminal history apparently proved no bar from association with her group, which she claimed protected American values by targeting drug smugglers and illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Forde introduced Gibler to several people in Snohomish County this winter, describing him as both a boyfriend and one of “her minutemen,” records show.

Forde’s family and friends have for months said the man they knew only as “Thomas Wayne” or “Wayne” bears a striking resemblance to a police artist’s sketch. The sketch depicts the narrow-faced stranger who Forde’s ex-husband said suddenly appeared in his north Everett house and began shooting.

At the time of the attack, the Fordes were divorcing, and Shawna Forde was unemployed, debt-ridden and essentially homeless.

Gibler was with Forde on the days her ex-husband was shot and also when she reported being raped, the documents show. He turned up at the hospital the night Forde said she’d been raped.

Forde told officers that Gibler was her boyfriend and a member of her minutemen group, but she also claimed not to know his last name, documents show.

It was Gibler who broke the news of Forde’s reported rape to the woman’s family, friends and others.

Shannon Naughton of Granite Falls said she was among those whom Gibler called.

She knew Forde growing up in Everett’s Lowell neighborhood and sometimes allowed her childhood friend to stay for extended periods at her home.

Naughton said Forde told her she met Gibler on an Internet dating site. Forde introduced Gibler as “Wayne,” but never gave his full name, Naughton said.

The pair sometimes stayed overnight at her house, she said, but left to live at Forde’s ex-husband’s Everett home in late December while he was hospitalized after the shooting.

Although the Everett Police don’t have enough evidence to bring charges, common sense would suggest that the case of Forde’s ex husbands shooting has been solved, as well as how her alleged “rape” and alleyway shooting occurred.

You be the judge!