Tyler Smith, a member of right-wing militia group Patriot Prayer, was featured in the reality show in Season 3, Episode 4 of Doomsday Preppers, a show that amplifies the paranoid, reactionary, and the radical right. His group is called The Marauders because they plan to steal their supplies. They showed him with firearms which led to his arrest for illegal possession of firearms. He is not eligible to have weapons because he is a convicted sex offender.
National Geographic didn’t mention he was a convicted child molester but they did show him saying he was an apex predator. Perhaps he meant sexual predator. Is molesting a 14-year-old girl apex?
He was convicted in 2009 for communicating with a minor for immoral purposes and inappropriately touching a 14-year-old girl in an Auburn, WA, parking lot. He also pleaded guilty to stealing a motorcycle.
- The Organic Prepper: Doomsday Prepper (and Convicted Felon) Tyler Smith Jailed for Illegal Firearms
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- Huffington Post: Tyler Smith, Doomsday Prepper, Allegedly Talked Of Robbing Neighbors When Apocalypse Strikes
Olympia, Washington · Friday, January 17, 2014