UPDATE: MMA Fighter Jason 'Mayhem' Miller in Custody after Live Tweeting Standoff with SWAT in Mission Viejo

An hourslong standoff between Mixed Martial Arts fighter Jason “Mayhem” Miller and SWAT officers ended Thursday with Miller surrendering after authorities blew the locks off the front door of his Mission Viejo home.

When Orange County sheriff’s deputies tried to take him into custody on an arrest warrant in a domestic violence and stalking case about 10:30 a.m., he ran back into his home and has refused to come out, Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock said.

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

Miller’s attorney, Joseph H. Low IV, 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.”

Throughout the conflict, Miller Tweeted about the standoff from his home at 26262 Avenida Calidad.

Some of his Tweets include:

• “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;
• 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.
• 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, “WE WON’T GO AWAY!”
• i have the proper paper work, at my office in HYPERLINK “https://twitter.com/VaporLabsIrvine/”@VaporLabsIrvine, i was due to go to court this morning, but the LFPD chase me all last night.
• if you would like to see this drama unfold, please, come to 26262 Avenida Calidad, Mission Viejo, CA 92691;
• Mental health services for one single mother immigrant from the Philipines, who I know was well intentioned, but has a mental condition... now i have to pay a debt for her mistakes.

This wasn’t the first brush with the law for Miller, 33, who had vandalism charges against him dismissed in 2012, but found himself in trouble with the law again for a domestic violence case in August of last year.

A misdemeanor vandalism charge against Miller was dismissed Nov. 21, 2012, after he was accused in August of 2012 of 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.

Miller was arrested in August of 2012 when the church’s pastor called sheriff’s deputies to report he found books and CDs scattered throughout the Alicia Parkway church, along with broken picture frames and fire extinguisher dust on the first and second floors.

Miller, who was an Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor, was found on the second floor nude, although he did have some sort of cloth wrapped around him.

— City News Service

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