YouTuber TIES arrested for trespassing near Area 51 Instagram: TIES \/ Wikipedia CommonsDutch YouTuber Ties Granzier and his friend were arrested on September 10, after being found trespassing at Area 51 after the viral \u2018storm Area 51\u2019 event was canceled. Granzier, 20, and Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep, 21, were both detained after they entered the private government property with camera equipment. According to the Nye County Sheriff\u2019s Office, the two men were stopped around three miles into the Nevada National Security Site, which is around 10 miles from Area 51 proper, having ignored numerous \u2018No Trespassing\u2019 signs. The facility is subject to conspiracy theories due to the secrecy of its operations, with some believing knowledge of extraterrestrials is kept there. A Facebook event called \u201cStorm Area 51, They Can\u2019t Stop All of Us\u201d went viral earlier in 2019, but organizers later canceled it to avoid a \u201cpossible humanitarian disaster\u201d. Granzier and Sweep, the former boasting over 700,000 YouTube subscribers, clearly had other ideas though, and had come to the area for the event, Sherriff officials said. Ties even posted his intentions of visiting the site on Instagram. In a statement, Nye County Sheriff\u2019s Office explained that they had responded to \u201ca report of foreign national trespassers.\u201d \u201cDeputies found a car parked near a gate approximately three miles into Nevada National Security Site property. The occupants of the vehicle were identified as Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep and Ties Granzier, both of the Netherlands \u201cBoth individuals told deputies that they speak, write and read English. They said that they saw the \u2018no trespassing\u2019 signs at the Mercury Highway entrance to the Nevada National Security Site but they wanted to look at the facility.\u201d The two YouTubers allowed officers to review the footage they had captured and inspected their vehicle, where they found more camera equipment, a laptop, and even a drone. According to Sweep, also a YouTuber, the pair didn\u2019t actually want to \u201cstorm\u201d the site, and were planning to leave before the planned date of the event, September 20, but rather just wanted to see the area. Unfortunately, because of how viral the Facebook event went, local authorities are still expecting a lot more people to make the trip to the mysterious site, Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee told BuzzFeed News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber TIES arrested for trespassing near Area 51 Instagram: TIES \/ Wikipedia CommonsDutch YouTuber Ties Granzier and his friend were arrested on September 10, after being found trespassing at Area 51 after the viral \u2018storm Area 51\u2019 event was canceled. Granzier, 20, and Govert Charles Wilhelmus Jacob Sweep, 21, were both detained after they entered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}