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

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.

i need to tell everyone about the absolute waste of resources going on outside of my house right now. i am counting no less than 5 officers.

— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014

They have threatened me with a dog bite and are amassing a great force that includes a spotter in the neighbors yard and an uncharasmaticman — mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014

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

— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014

PER USUAL, THEY HAVE AN ARMY, and i am just me — mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014

He actually tweeted this, too:

I did nothing wrong. This is the state of American Justice. I feel you black men. They fear, so they threaten to take our lives. Abhorrent.

— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014

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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