Two Different Surrender Messages in Two Different Documents
Analysis excerpt setting the two surrender texts side by side. Full write-up →
Two official documents describe the same moment — Robinson announcing he was giving himself up — and they quote two entirely different sentences. One is a private text to Lance Twiggs. The other is the group post made under the Discord account zealous_monkey_55095.
Version A: the indictment
"Im gonna turn myself in willingly, one of my neighbors here is a deputy for the sheriff."
This is a private text to Lance Twiggs.
Version B: the search warrant's Discord post
"Hey guys, I have bad news for you all. It was me at UVU yesterday. [i]m sorry for all of this. [i]m surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments. [thanks for all the good times and laughs[, you've all been so amazing. Thank you all for everything.]"
The bracketed characters in the excerpt mark where the warrant's text departs from the screenshot.
The editing observation
"he author of the search warrant, Justin Bowen, has used upper case at times where the Discord post had had lower case, and has omitted the last few words included above."
That is a real, checkable difference. The screenshot is in all-lowercase sentence starts — "im sorry," "im surrendering," "thanks for all" — and the warrant renders them capitalised, then stops short of the closing words. Retyping rather than quoting is not misconduct, but it means the warrant's version of the confession is a transcription, not the artifact, and small transcription choices are exactly what a defense expert would probe.
The part the warrant does not contain
The analysis makes a further point:
"the search warrant seems to know nothing about the personal surrender note to Lance himself, only the post written for everyone (and which contains the word 'all' five times!)."
So Version A — the private "one of my neighbors here is a deputy for the sheriff" line — appears in the indictment but not in the earlier warrant. The sequencing argument that follows is that the public Discord post existed first, and the private surrender text surfaced afterwards.
The deputy detail
"It's interesting that only here do we have any notion that the sheriff friend (Mike Mitchell) was a (former) deputy ... that piece of information (that the facilitator was a deputy) had never been placed in the public domain prior to the 15th (with the indictment) ... and it was indeed Mitchell, confirmed by the search warrants, was only revealed by Candace Owens around the 17th or so. To underline this point, the PCA knows nothing about any deputy."
Three documents, three states of knowledge about the same intermediary, arriving in an order that the analysis reads as accretion rather than discovery. We present it as a contested reading of the document sequence, not as a proven fabrication.
The Location Field Is Typed In. The IP Address Is Not.
On Discord, on Steam, and on every platform in this section, the country shown on a profile is a text box the user filled in. Anyone can type Utah, or Egypt, or nothing at all, and change it again in seconds. Whether it is shown publicly is a setting. It is not evidence of where a person was sitting when they typed a message.
What is not typed in is the IP address. Every session, every login, every message send is written to the platform's own logs with the address it arrived from, alongside device fingerprints and session timing. Discord holds that record for the servers named in the Utah State Bureau of Investigation's warrant — Craftopia, Gamin and The Corruption — and for the account that posted the confession.
That is the question this section keeps returning to: is it known where the people in these servers actually were? The FBI reportedly examined twenty or more people in Robinson's Discord circle and charged none of them, and nothing in the public record states where any of them were. To be explicit, because it matters: being in another country is not wrongdoing, no one in those servers has been accused by any authority of anything, and nothing on this site suggests any of them did anything improper. The point is narrower — that a location nobody has verified should not be treated as if it were verified, in either direction. Self-reported locations circulated widely — see the Egypt claim on a Steam profile — and self-reported locations are worthless.
The answer exists. It is in Discord's subpoena return and in the login-IP history for September 10–12 — records that investigators can obtain through lawful process and the public cannot. What we are asking for is that the record for the account that posted the confession be established through that process and, so far as the law allows, made public. Until it is, every claim of foreign involvement in these chats — and every denial — rests on a field somebody typed.
We are not asking anyone to identify, locate, contact or expose any private individual, and readers should not attempt it. We name no one and we accuse no one. This is a request for a record, not an allegation against a person.
Other Parts of the Discord Messages
Surrendering vs. Turning Himself In
The Discord post says surrendering. The indictment says turning himself in willingly. That one word reads as written by somebody other than the person surrendering.
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The second block turns from retrieving a rifle to calling police from a chosen spot — going out on his own terms rather than being dragged through the courts.
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The @ProjectConstitu Ankha Thread
The post that pushed the Ankha profile into circulation, tying an Egypt location field to reporting about Egyptian aircraft in Provo on September 10.
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Bates 003996-R2 — Miranda at 6:25 vs. the Discord Clock
Bates-stamped discovery puts Robinson Mirandized at about 6:25 PM. The confession is timestamped roughly ninety minutes later, when his phone should already have been in county custody.
Read thisThe Steam Friend List May Matter More
Discord is where the confession appeared. Steam is where the friendships actually lived. A server can hold hundreds of people who have never spoken to each other; a friend list is chosen one person at a time, and the people on it are the ones you spend hundreds of hours in voice chat with, night after night, for years. If anyone in Robinson's online life knew him well enough to matter, they are likelier to be on that list than on a server roster.
The two circles overlap directly: visitors to the Steam profile posted their Discord handles on its public comment wall. And Steam stores exactly what Discord stores — the IP address each session came from — no matter what country a profile claims.
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