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“Almost SEAL” Dan Bilzerian arrested at LAX

by Jonn Lilyea••28

Dan Bilzerians

There has been some internet interest in our year-old post about Dan Bilzerian, the fellow who likes to tell everyone that he was almost a SEAL. Apparently, the interest is because he was arrested at LAX this week and he’s being held without bail for attempting to manufacture explosives, according to TMZ. It could also be related to the fact that he kicked a woman in the face in a Miami nightclub.

We’ve learned an arrest warrant was issued in Clark County, Nevada. Bilerzian has been charged with violating a law making it a crime to possess an explosive or incendiary device with the intent to manufacture it.

According to the criminal complaint — obtained by TMZ — Bilzerian had ammonium and aluminum powder, along with ammonium nitrate mix — and when mixed it acts like pure TNT.

The warrant was issued last month but it was confidential … under seal, presumably because cops were continuing to investigate and they didn’t want their cover blown if the warrant became public.

Bilerzian likes to tell people two stories about his abbreviated SEAL career- that he was booted in the final days of the course for punching an officer. Don Shipley says that’s unlikely. Alternately, Bilerzian tells folks that the instructors at the SEAL course hammered him in peer reviews, but instructors don’t write peer reviews – students write them. Shipley tells us it’s most likely that the male Paris Hilton trust fund baby wasn’t SEAL material and the instructors recognized that trait.

It looks like they were right.

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28 thoughts on ““Almost SEAL” Dan Bilzerian arrested at LAX”

  1. Once again, it appears stolen valor is merely the rancid cherry topping a crap sundae.

    I am shocked, shocked.

  2. He has a bunch of videos on his Instagram blowing stuff up and has quite the arsenal as well. He didn’t do a very good job of hiding this haha.

  3. I spent 3 weeks at Chinhae during a Team Spirit, and regularly ate in the chow hall with SEALs. Therefore, I too am almost a SEAL.

  4. “The warrant was issued last month but it was confidential … under seal, presumably because cops were continuing to investigate and they didn’t want their cover blown if the warrant became public.” Dummies. In most, if not all, states, information that a warrant is outstanding is not publishable at least for some period of time. Why? Because it really isn’t wise to inform wanted persons that they are wanted. They tend to either go on the wing, prep to resist, or both.

    1. Um, 2/17 Air Cav . . . the guy has been arrested and is presently being held without bond. I think that means the warrant is no longer outstanding. (smile)

      1. Um, Hondo. The article said the warrant WAS under seal upon issuance last month. It is no longer so because it was executed. If TMZ wants to file for the supporting affidavit, it can do so. It apparently did not.

        1. True – but irrelevant. The article’s date of publication is yesterday. Blitzerian’s warrant was executed the day before yesterday.

          Please also note that TMZ did not publish the indictment – merely the fact that it occurred. So if they have a copy, they’re at least smart/responsible enough not to do that.

  5. I clicked on one of the articles and it begins by announcing Bilzerian’s (self) anointed status as “The King of Instagram”. There’s a lot of data packed into that one title. Back in my day, trust fund babies were only known locally.

  6. Simply because we can spell it doesn’t mean a thing. Some days I wish that it did – and might keep practicing “multi-millionaire” just in case.

    Silly boy. Immature idiot. There, I feel better now.

    Enjoy your time in jail, maggot. And enjoy your personal redistribution of whatever wealth you have left to a fleet of lawyers so that should you ever get out of jail your disposable income is much reduced. You earned it.

    1. There is many a Lawyer out there that will defend someone like him right down to his last dollar.

  7. Are those Russians in the picture or just his friends? They look like they’re supposed to be naval infantry but I don’t think beards were allowed.

  8. For a brief moment, I was stunned. Then I realized what it truly means.

    When you get booted from BUD/S because you’re UNSUIT for that kind of job, mostly because you’re a mere asshole on an ego trip to start with, being booted gives you a license to go from being an asshole to being a badasshole with a severe case of f*****d-upegotardery.

    In addition, you can inflate that egotardery by battering women who reject you and use your unlimited(?) trust fund baby means to B-L-O-W stuff up.

    Or you can turn into Jesse Ventura and run for office with a crew of truthers and paranoids conspiracy theorists in your trail.

    Is this DQBlizzardbrain in this year’s tourney, or was he seeded out? I think he certainly does deserve a second chance if he was considered to be too tame for fame.

  9. He’s a “Rich Boy”, thus I’m sure that Bubba & Thor will be able to charge twice as many cigarettes and desserts for a “date” with him!!

  11. I’m no Bilerzian fanboy, but there were a few key details left out of the TMZ article. Bilerzian was arrested for possession of tannerite, which is legal in NV, and was released. To me, this falls somewhere between a dumbass cop or prosecutor getting upset over his youtube videos and not knowing that tannerite is legal and a dumbass gun nut not following the rules for owning and using tannerite. Probably a little bit of both, but this isn’t a nut running around trying to make a truck bomb.

    And I’m not sure this guy qualifies for stolen valor. IMO, lying about why you were dropped from BUDs is a long way from claiming you were something you’re not.

    1. Don’t interrupt the echo chamber with independent thought.

      Military Arms Channel has gone over how utterly stupid tannerite regulations are before so I’m not surprised the feds would be doing something like this.

      1. I don’t think it’s feds. IIRC, the article said a NV warrant, not a Fed warrant. Leds me to believ it was someone that got spun up over his youtube videos without knowing what tannerite is, or he was doing something dumb with Tannerite and it was caught on tape.

  12. Not like it really matters but i heard he was booted out of BUDS for too many safety violations handling weapons….must be nice having a PHD “Poppa Had Doe” would be “Has” but poppa is gone.

  13. Tannerite? Why I am not surprised (as far as the feds are concerned).

    What irks me the most is what I will try to describe below, and it is not any sort of a defense of Bilzerian himself in terms of personality, or even character after he left the USN.

    Every day at BUD/S is it’s own individual kick in the nuts. And as the days and weeks grind on, everyone gets more and more ground down. This is something that no stupid TV show or even the best written book can relate to anyone who hasn’t been thru some selection course or at the very least spent a few hard weeks in the field.

    However annoying this guy may be, he made it through hell week twice. Being rolled after making it through hell week due to stress fractures and then dropped is a special kind of gut check all in itself. I was rolled for stress fractures myself, and being forced to leave the guys you classed up with and then went through hell week with sucks in a way I cannot describe with words. To then be dropped from BUD/S, and wait for at least a year (no idea how many classes were going through per year in that time frame but I can almost guarantee it wasn’t 10) to get back to nut kick #1 (day 1) – he’s got guts. No doubts about it in my mind.

    *Compound* stress fractures. Think about that if you’ve ever suffered stress fractures in your lower extremities. If you haven’t, try to imagine what you don’t know.

    And then he classes up again, assuming he takes another hell week in the face – again, gets all the way out to the Island, and blows it.

    My hunch is he maybe had some attitude issues (due to what he’d been through already, such as ‘there’s no way I’m getting dropped after 2 hell weeks and I know I’ll never quit’) that caused him to not heed some warning signs. Sucks to be him. Someone mentioned ‘multiple safety violations’ in a reply – 1 is all it takes.

    Yes, it’s a selection course. And what the instructors saw in him the first time caused them to allow him to come back. And he never quit.

    If the following statement doesn’t apply to you, you’ll know it and no need to reply.

    What burns me is when you have people on the internet who have never stepped up and put it on the line, never volunteered, zero days in a combat unit, zero days in training for any combat unit or in any sort of selection course, dogpile on this guy because he comes across as a dick and the fact that he didn’t eventually earn his Golden Leg Spreader somehow gives them license to talk shit.

    Better Men than myself failed to complete that course because of horrendous luck leading to permanent injury. Olympic athletes have been kindly shown the door by the instructors because they weren’t a fit mentally for the Teams.

    All of them volunteered to suffer a great deal just for the chance to serve in some of the most hazardous callings that exist.

    The Brits are very careful to attach no stigma to someone who does not complete selection and training for their special units – they realize that what makes a great Soldier does not always equal and/or include what makes a great Special Operations Soldier. Their guys who do not make it all the way generally return to their original unit with nothing but a pat on the back and a respectful ‘You had the guts to try, good on you’ from their fellow Soldiers.

    I’m not saying he’s not an arrogant ass, a dick, whatever. Heaven knows there’s no one like that in any SOF units (my eyes are rolling).

    But if you’re commenting on him *and you’ve never stood up to be counted when it comes to volunteering for a combat unit/duty, never busted your ass to qualify to attend training and selection* – read the quote below and think long and hard about it. And if you still feel entitled to talk shit about him, he’s easy enough to find – you should go do it in person.

    Arrogant? Sure. Unchecked attitude got him booted? Probably. Put himself in the arena twice for the chance to serve his Nation in a very hazardous manner? That too. I think some do not think about that enough.

    ‘It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.’

    -Teddy Roosevelt
    Excerpt from the speech ‘Citizenship In A Republic’, delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910

    1. Can’t (and wouldn’t anyway) argue with any of your points. Would simply add that there are three parts to being on any team. First, a capacity to learn how to do whatever it is that the team does. Second, the actual learning how to do it. Third, and finally, is demonstrating that you can actually do that something.

      This guy apparently got through the first two parts, but failed to make that last crucial step. Does that mean he’s a failure? Well, maybe, as far as calling himself a SEAL. Not something I would personally consider shameful. However, it does not excuse other bad behavior.

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