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October 9, 2014 11:10 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

Mixed-martial artist Jason “Mayhem” Miller live-tweeted an hours-long standoff with the Sheriff’s Department that ended with a SWAT team, a bomb squad and crisis negotiators at his Mission Viejo home on Thursday.

[su_center_ad]Deputies were serving an arrest warrant for alleged stalking and domestic violence about 10:00 a.m. when the suspect barricaded himself inside the home, Lt. Jeff Hallock with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.

Hallock identified the man in the home as Jason Miller, saying that the individual had routinely been in contact with the Sheriff’s Department in past incidents, according to KTLA.

“He retreated into the house, was uncooperative with any of the commands by sheriff’s deputies, and based on that, we established a perimeter, called out the SWAT team and now we’re in the process of establishing communication with him inside the house,” Hallock said just after 1:00 p.m.

The suspect began live-tweeting the incident.

According to public records, Miller owns the single family home at the address where the incident took place.

“We haven’t seen any real negative downfall from that particular tweet,” Hallock said, “but we know that is another mechanism for communicating with this individual.”

Authorities tried to contact Miller via cellphone and said they were prepared to “communicate with him via social media if need be,” the lieutenant said.

The Sheriff’s Department announced on Twitter just before 2:15 p.m. that the standoff was over after Miller surrendered at the rear of the home following a “remote front door breach.”

Aerial mages showed multiple patrol cars, a black SWAT armored vehicle, an ambulance and other police-type vehicles were on scene. A crisis negotiations team and bomb squad responded as well, Hallock said.

About 1:45 p.m., Miller tweeted that authorities had broken a window in his home, thrown a box in with a phone inside, and were scaring his dog.

He actually tweeted this, too:

KTLA reports, “Miller was charged in 2012 in connection with the a vandalism incident in which he allegedly broke into a church and caused an estimated $400 worth of damage, according to the Los Angeles Times, which also reported he was discovered sleeping naked on a couch. The charge was dropped later that year.”

He was also arrested about a year earlier on suspicion of domestic violence outside of his Mission Viejo home in August 2013.

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

7 responses to MMA Fighter Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller Surrenders After Live-Tweeting Standoff With Sheriff’s Dept

  1. tiredoftea October 9th, 2014 at 11:29 pm

    Another felons league for us all to look up to.

  2. Dcbos October 10th, 2014 at 1:37 am

    the man evidently needs help; hope he gets it.

  3. Skydog2 October 10th, 2014 at 7:02 am

    Quite a few police to serve an arrest warrant.

  4. Khary A October 10th, 2014 at 10:20 am

    wow they didn’t burst through the door and shoot the first thing they saw…Well I for one am shocked and amazed.

  5. tracey marie October 10th, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    A white guy, a violent one at that is being served a warrent. The cops take thier time, use no extraordinary measures like flash cans or pepper spray let alone bullets or smashing into the house. Now if he was black he would be dead, a child would be dead,burned or maimed
    the swat team would have broken in before dawn and people would die

  6. fancypants October 10th, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Mental health services for one single mother immigrant from the Philipines, who I know was well intentioned, but has a mental condition…
    ———————————-
    Debatable who has the mental problems

  7. spacegod October 12th, 2014 at 2:57 am

    I would surrender, too, if they called out the ‘uncharasmaticman…..’