Left inset: Eric Conover allegedly being pursued by police on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in New Hampshire (WMUR/YouTube). Right inset: A video screengrab from the Eric Van Conover YouTube page and a post on Jan. 25, 2025 (YouTube). Background: Eric Conover appearing in court Monday, March 17, by video conference (WMUR/YouTube).
A famous YouTuber with nearly 3 million subscribers who makes videos about “architecture, sacred geometry, and AI-consciousness evolution” is charged with attempted murder in New Hampshire for allegedly trying to kill a police officer with his Jeep — an incident he insists didn’t happen, calling it “a massive misunderstanding” at his first court hearing.
“Actually, the state troopers brutalized me,” said Erik Conover, 35, at his bail hearing Sunday, according to The Conway Daily Sun. “Thank God for being in a small town.”
Conover, who goes by Eric Van Conover on YouTube and is described in news articles as a “YouTube millionaire” and real estate broker with a “Luxury Listings” series that features celebrities, told police that he was not the same Erik Conover that they were looking for in connection to the attempted murder of Bartlett Patrol Officer Cameron Emmett on Saturday during a chase and traffic stop gone wrong. Emmett was trying to pull over Conover after seeing the popular YouTuber speed past him in a 35-mph zone while he had a different car pulled over.
“He visually estimated the speed as being high, over the limit — around 55-60 miles per hour,” Bartlett Police Sgt. Brian Moffitt told Magistrate Judge Mark Howard in court Sunday, according to the Daily Sun. Emmett pursued Conover and managed to get him stopped through various maneuvers with his squad car, and that’s where things almost turned deadly.
