MMA Fighter Jason 'Mayhem' Miller Unable to Appear in Court to Face Charges Related to Mission Viejo Standoff

Originally posted at 4:14 p.m. Oct. 14, 2014. Edited with new details.

Mixed martial arts fighter Jason “Mayhem” Miller, whose standoff with sheriff’s deputies last week was punctuated by a flurry of Twitter posts, had his arraignment postponed today due to problems transporting him to court from a jail cell.

Miller, who is jailed on $200,000 bail, was scheduled to be arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest. Miller’s attorney, Joseph H. Low IV, said the failure of his client to appear in court today was due to administrative reasons within the jail and that it was “no unique reason to Miller.” His arraignment was reset for Monday.

He was declared a fugitive Sept. 8 when he failed to show up for a hearing in a domestic violence and stalking case, prompting sheriff’s deputies to go to his Mission Viejo home Thursday with an arrest warrant.

Miller also had a scheduled hearing on the misdemeanor charge Monday.

When deputies showed up at his home around 10:30 a.m. Thursday, he came to the door but ran back inside and refused to come out.

About 2:15 p.m., SWAT officers placed a device on his door that blew off the locks, prompting Miller to surrender.

Last week, Miller’s attorney told City News Service the raid was unnecessary.

“Jason had been under the care of a doctor for an illness,” Low said. “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.”

During the standoff, Miller tweeted from inside his home at 26262 Avenida Calidad.

“They just threw a phone box threw a plate glass window” said one tweet from Miller. “OCSD You will pay for the damage to my home,” said another.

Aside from the resisting arrest charge, Miller faces two counts of corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant and stalking, all felonies, and a misdemeanor count of violating a protective order, according to court records.

Court records show Miller’s $200,000 bond was forfeited on Sept. 8.

Miller, 33, had vandalism charges against him dismissed Nov. 21, 2012, but found himself in trouble with the law again for the domestic violence case in August 2013.

In August 2012, he was charged with breaking at least one picture frame and damaging a propane tank and other items while spray-painting inside Mission Hills Church, causing at least $400 in damage.

The church’s pastor told authorities he found Miller nude except for a cloth wrapped around him and books and CDs scattered around the church, along with broken picture frames and fire extinguisher dust on the first and second floors.

--City News Service

PHOTO Jason “Mayhem” Miller. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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