{"id":101077,"date":"2020-06-16T08:58:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101077"},"modified":"2020-06-16T10:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:21:19","slug":"marine-charged-with-impersonating-a-federal-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101077","title":{"rendered":"Marine Vet Charged with Impersonating a Federal Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blm-protest-sanns.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101078 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blm-protest-sanns-500x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blm-protest-sanns-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blm-protest-sanns-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/blm-protest-sanns-768x460.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several news outlets are reporting that a man has been charged with impersonating a federal agent when he showed up to a Black Lives Matter protest and stood side-by-side with police.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>MyNews4.com<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/mynews4.com\/news\/local\/man-charged-with-impersonating-federal-officer-at-las-vegas-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Man charged with impersonating federal officer at Las Vegas protest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Military.com<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2020\/06\/13\/man-claiming-be-agent-vegas-protest-arrested-impersonating-officer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Man Claiming to Be Agent at Vegas Protest Arrested for Impersonating Officer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>ReviewJornal<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/crime\/armed-man-at-black-lives-matter-protest-charged-with-impersonating-officer-2051755\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Armed man at Black Lives Matter protest charged with impersonating officer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>ConnectingVets<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/connectingvets.radio.com\/articles\/opinion\/former-marine-turned-fake-fed-arrested\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marine veteran turned fake federal agent arrested for impersonating law enforcement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>It was Hunter S. Thompson who said that, &#8220;when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.&#8221; The story of Marine veteran Zachary Sanns, who allegedly impersonated federal agents at protests, is about as weird a story as they come.<\/p>\n<p>When a tattooed man outfitted with an AR-15 rifle, ballistic helmet, body armor, night-vision goggles\u00a0and generally dressed like a plainclothes police officer appeared amongst police officers and protestors in Las Vegas, it aroused the suspicion of local cops on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>When he showed up at the protests on May 30\u00a0and tried to join in the police skirmish line, a deputy informed him that he did not need him provoking protestors with his rifle. When the deputy asked Sanns who he was, he implied that he worked for Homeland Security Investigations. When asked by a different police officer during the same event, Sanns replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m with the State Department. They deployed us out here,&#8221;\u00a0according to the indictment. A third law enforcement officer recognized the\u00a0tattoos on Sanns&#8217; arms.<\/p>\n<p>One tattoo was &#8220;0351&#8221; which is the designation for Marine Corps infantry. Another was the Waffen-SS twin lightning bolt insignia of the notorious Nazi unit responsible for war crimes and participation in the Holocaust. In the past, Marine scout-snipers have co-opted the Nazi insignia for their own use without Marine Corps authorization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He displayed a &#8220;0351&#8221; tattoo on his arm which is the US Marine Corps MOS for Infantry Assaultman.\u00a0 He was heavily armed, wearing tactical gear, night vision goggles, and insignia that suggested he was a federal agent.<\/p>\n<p>The man was identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zachary.sanns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zachary Sanns<\/a>, who served in the Marine Corps from 2011-2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sanns-dodmanpower-usmc-redacted.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101079\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sanns-dodmanpower-usmc-redacted-250x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sanns-dodmanpower-usmc-redacted-250x333.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sanns-dodmanpower-usmc-redacted-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sanns-dodmanpower-usmc-redacted-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sanns-dodmanpower-usmc-redacted.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101080\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/zachary-sanns.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/zachary-sanns-497x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/zachary-sanns-497x333.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/zachary-sanns-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/zachary-sanns-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/zachary-sanns.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Zachary Sanns &#8211; Facebook<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As it turns out, Zachary&#8217;s wife is a member of the Las Vegas Metro Police.\u00a0 Dinnertime at that household may be uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Never grill shirtless and never impersonate a federal officer.<\/p>\n<p>Shaking my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several news outlets are reporting that a man has been charged with impersonating a federal agent &hellip; <a title=\"Marine Vet Charged with Impersonating a Federal Officer\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101077\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine Vet Charged with Impersonating a Federal Officer<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":101081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teh-stoopid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101086,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101077\/revisions\/101086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}