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Booking Sheet Arrest Time Contradicts the Affidavit (Claims)

:::caution Attributed claims only A single custody event routinely generates several different official timestamps, and a discrepancy between two of them is not by itself evidence of misconduct. What follows are reported claims from citizen researchers about documents they say they have reviewed. No officer named or implied here has been charged with or found to have committed any wrongdoing. Tyler Robinson is charged, not convicted. :::

Claim snapshot​

FieldValue
The claimTwo official records reportedly give arrest times six hours apart, and the earlier one predates the affidavit's own arrival time
Raised byIndependent researchers; @Partisangirl (Syrian Girl / Dr. Maram Susli)
First surfacedUndated in source
Rests onDocument — booking paperwork and a submission record, as described by researchers
Evidence ratingMODERATE

What is alleged​

Researchers circulating images of Robinson's intake paperwork say two documents in the same file give two different arrest times. An "Inmate Booking Sheet and PC Statement" reportedly attributed to the Utah County Sheriff's Office lists the arrest at 10:00pm on September 11, 2025. A separate submission record reportedly lists "Arrest Date/Time: 09/12/2025 04:00", with "Probable Cause Entered: 09/12/2025 07:18", Probable Cause ID 189904, booking agency Utah County Sheriff Office, agency inmate ID 460956, and the submitting officer identified as UTBDAVIS — Brian Davis, described on the form as a sworn officer with the Attorney General's office.

The sharper problem researchers point to is internal. The government's own probable-cause narrative reportedly states that "Tyler Robinson arrived at the Washington County Sheriff's Office accompanied by his parents at approximately 2226 hours" — 10:26pm. If the booking sheet's arrest time of 10:00pm is accurate, then on the face of the two documents Robinson was arrested twenty-six minutes before he arrived at the building where the arrest is said to have occurred. Researchers argue the two figures cannot both describe the same event, and that the 4:00am figure looks less like a moment of detention than like the moment the paperwork caught up to a custody that had already been underway for hours.

Those raising it connect the gap to the broader dispute over when Robinson actually came in — see the Miranda timing question — and note that a roughly 260-mile transport between Washington County and Utah County takes three to four hours each way, which they say makes some of the published sequence physically difficult.

The ordinary explanation​

Booking paperwork is not a single clock. One custody event ordinarily generates several distinct, legitimately different timestamps: the time a person was first detained, the time a sworn officer formally effected the arrest, the time a probable-cause statement was drafted and entered, and the time the receiving jail completed booking. These can differ by hours in an entirely routine case, and they differ more — not less — when two agencies at opposite ends of a state are involved and a long interagency transport sits between the first contact and the final booking. A 04:00 entry recorded by a Utah County officer is exactly what you would expect if that officer completed the formal arrest and booking sequence after driving a suspect several hours north. The 07:18 probable-cause entry then follows naturally as the time the sworn statement was filed.

The apparent 10:00pm-before-10:26pm inversion is also the kind of thing clerical convention produces constantly. Different agencies populate the "arrest" field differently — some enter the time of the originating event, some the time of first contact, some a rounded estimate — and a hand-entered round number like "10:00pm" has the texture of an approximation rather than a logged observation. An affidavit's "approximately 2226 hours" is itself explicitly approximate. Two approximations from two agencies landing half an hour apart is unremarkable, and reading a conspiracy into a rounded field is a heavy load for that field to bear.

What would settle it​

  1. Obtain the complete, unredacted Inmate Booking Sheet and PC Statement and the corresponding submission record together, so both timestamps can be read in context rather than from circulated crops.
  2. Depose or obtain a written statement from Officer Brian Davis on what the 04:00 arrest entry was intended to record and when he physically took custody.
  3. Request the Utah County Sheriff's Office records-management data dictionary — the written convention defining what its "Arrest Date/Time" field means — which would resolve whether the two entries are contradictory or simply measuring different things.
  4. Pull dispatch/CAD logs and transport records for the Washington-to-Utah County trip, which would independently fix the departure and arrival times.

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