Jason “Mayhem” Miller, a retired MMA fighter live-tweeted a standoff with armed police outside his house in an LA suburb on Thursday, before eventually being arrested.
Miller wrote several dozen tweets as police held him at bay in his home before officers blew the locks off his front door.
Orange County police said Miller is accused of domestic violence and stalking, notably breaching a restraining order barring him from contact with his wife.
He failed to attend a September 8 court appearance and was declared a fugitive.
Miller said he had planned to go to court Thursday, but “woke up late”. Officers with an arrest warrant arrived at his home in the mornibg, but Miller refused to come out. A SWAT team moved in and blew the locks off his door shortly after 2pm, said Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jeff Hallock.
Miller’s attorney said the raid was not necessary. “Jason had been under the care of a doctor for an illness,” said lawyer Joseph Low. “He has been waiting for me to come back to town so that we could go back to court to continue to prove his innocence.
“I wish the police had informed me of their raid. We could have saved the taxpayers a lot of money. There was no reason at all for them to get all dressed up in their SWAT costumes,” he added.
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 also have allocated use of a chopper, which cost approx. 12 Grand an Hour to operate, along with taking time away from REAL emergencies
— 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
..who continues to remind me that they are here serving a warrant for my arrest. I have not committed any crime, but yet i am forced HERE.
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
PER USUAL, THEY HAVE AN ARMY, and i am just me
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
just don't let them shoot me
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
i have the proper paper work, at my office in @VaporLabsIrvine, i was due to go to court this morning, but the LFPD chase me all last night.
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
i woke up late, and couldn't leave because there is a highly equipment regiment of wanna be soldiers outside my house reminding me that,
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
ALL THIS because I wanted to help raise a young boy into a man, and his mama wenr off her meds, and an ambitious DA thinks mayhem is BAD.
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
I WISH YOU NO HARM. I respect the Police, but this is overkill, for something that would be settled with one piece of paperwork from OCBAIL
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
i now see a literal Armored Personal Carrier pulling up. They tryna to murder me. I just want a peaceful solution.
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
@mayhemmiller "@OCSD: #OCSDPIO: SWAT UPDATE - Crisis Negotiators attempting communication with subject inside. pic.twitter.com/xZmQdYqau5"
— Josh Carey (@JoshDCarey) October 9, 2014
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
now the broke my window with some box with a phone in it, and AR-15s. THEY ARE TERRIFIED, and they have all the guns. Scaring my hotdog.
— mayhem miller (@mayhemmiller) October 9, 2014
