Overnight, a St. Landry Parish SWAT team arrested a man accused in two shootings.
Robert Clifton Tanner, 55, was booked with two counts attempted second-degree murder and three counts simple criminal damage to property.
Yesterday, we told you that Tanner was wanted, and considered armed and dangerous. He's accused of shooting a man who came to repossess his vehicle for non-payment. The victim is stable, police say.
St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz told us that Tanner believes he is a "sovereign citizen" who is anti-government and anti-law enforcement.
KATC Investigates took a look and 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.
Here's an example. This was posted on his social media account a couple weeks ago; we haven't corrected any spelling or grammatical errors here:
"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...
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