“Sovereign Citizen” Shoots Repossession Agent

A repossession agent was attempting to repossess a vehicle when he was shot by ex-con and self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen”, Robert Tanner. But Tanner wasn’t done and went on shoot up an occupied church. In response, the Landry Parish Sheriffs Department went on the hunt. Monday night, they got him.

On Sunday night of the 16^th, an unnamed repossession agent became the first in a series of outburst by 55-year-old ex-convict and self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen”, Robert Tanner, as he attempted to repossess a vehicle from him. Tanner responded by allegedly opening fire. The unnamed repossession agent was shot.

Tanner then allegedly fled the scene of the crime only to step up violence. “He shot into a church occupied by a number of people,” Sherriff Guidroz said shortly after. But Tanner’s criminal past had never veered beyond his “sovereign citizen” activities as far as his criminal convictions go, which are pretty wild in themselves.

“Sovereign Citizen” Shoots Repossession Agent — Robert Tanner

Federal court records show that about 10 years ago, Tanner had plead guilty to federal wire fraud and served time in prison after he admitted to trying to “assert false claims of indebtedness totaling billions of dollars against judges and other court officials.”

The indictment against him and his co-defendant had alleged they filed or attempted to file liens and claims against judges, attorneys, and others in Utah by mailing documents and filing fictitious judgments and liens that were intended to create an appearance of indebtedness for the judges, attorneys, and others. A far cry from the charges now against him.

KATC news reported that they found that Tanner has an active social media presence focused on his claims, as well as a federal criminal record related to it. On his pages, he’s a federal agent with the “Department of the Army, Civilian Military Police” with what appears to be a homemade ID card which protects him from “fake” agents and law enforcement.

As an example, KATC reports that the following post was made on his social media account a couple weeks ago; they didn’t correct any spelling or grammatical errors:

“WHAT’S-REALLY-HAPPENING these are heathen votile offerings. These are not courts or prosicutors. Those are not criminal charges. They are pagan temples and priest of baal and molock. Those are curse tablets or defixio. Operating as nothing but private utilities, government units like the garbage man but acting as badged vessel savage officers for a private foreign salvor brokerage bank registered with SAM.GOV placing in bid bonds into the GSA in fraud while impersonating peace officers and public government tax exempt political subdivisions,” Tanner posted.

Late Monday night, Robert Clifton Tanner, 55, was captured in a raid by the Landry Parish Sheriffs Department SWAT team. Tanner was booked with two counts of attempted second-degree murder and three counts of simple criminal damage to property.

As previously mentioned, the repossession agent and company are unnamed. The extent of his/her injuries is unknown at this time. All that St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz would share is that the agent is stable. No other persons were reported as injured from the church shooting.

Source: KATC News