Alabama Singer/Public Adjuster Ordered to Wear Ankle Monitor, Stay Home

Austin Tanner, a claims adjuster and aspiring country singer from Alabama, has been confined mostly to his home and must wear an ankle monitor after he violated the terms of his bail bond and traveled to the Country Music Awards last month.

A Circuit judge in Mobile County this week ordered that Tanner, of Orange Beach, be allowed out of his home only for church, work and legal appointments, according to local news reports. Tanner, who released a single earlier this year, was allowed out on bond in April after he was indicted for insurance fraud and theft amid allegations that he inflated repair costs and fees on properties he examined as a public adjuster.

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Tanner has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

He ran into trouble last month after he posted photographs on social media of his attendance at the CMA in Nashville. Terms of his bail bond forbid him from leaving the state.

At a hearing Wednesday, Judge Michael Windom questioned why Tanner had not turned himself in sooner. The singer/adjuster said he had contracted COVID-19 and was ill.