MMA fighter is arrested again
He’s held on suspicion of assault with a weapon on an officer.
Mixed martial arts fighter Jason “Mayhem” Miller was arrested Friday after throwing a tile at deputies and threatening them with a fire extinguisher during an eight-minute struggle, authorities said.
Orange County sheriff’s deputies deployed a Taser during the arrest, the fighter’s second in about seven months on suspicion of assaulting an officer.
Deputies went to Miller’s home on Avenida Calidad in Mission Viejo about 1:35 a.m. after receiving reports of a disturbance, said Lt. Jeff Hallock, spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department. Deputies heard a woman’s screams inside the home, he said.
As deputies entered through a side yard, they were confronted by Miller, who became aggressive and yelled, authorities said.
Miller threw a ceramic tile at them while also wielding a fire extinguisher and a metal pole, authorities said. Miller ignored the deputies’ commands, so they used a Taser on him, they said. Miller was handcuffed and arrested.
Miller was involved in a dispute with two women in his home, authorities said. The women did not cooperate with deputies, Hallock said.
Miller was held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, Hallock said.
In March, he was charged with resisting an officer by using violence, battery on the officers and resisting arrest and obstructing in connection with a fight in Laguna Beach.
Laguna Beach police said Miller broke a glass at the White House restaurant in the 300 block of South Coast Highway, walked out and headed south on the highway on foot. He then turned around and walked back toward the restaurant, where he was confronted by four Laguna Beach officers.
Miller began to fight with the officers, police said. Four officers grappled with Miller as he kicked and spat at them before they were able to put him in a police cruiser, police said.
Miller kicked at the police cruiser’s windows on the way to jail, police said.
But that wasn’t Miller’s first brush with law enforcement.
In October 2014, Miller live-tweeted a standoff with police while barricaded inside his home.
Orange County sheriff’s deputies had gone to the home to arrest Miller on warrants in connection with a suspected domestic violence incident, stalking and a court-order violation.
But he ran into his home and refused to come out, authorities said.
The fighter tweeted the standoff and told followers, “If you would like to see this drama unfold, please come” to the address.
Hours later, SWAT officers broke through the front door. Miller ran out the back door, but then surrendered.
In 2012, Miller was taken into custody after authorities found him sleeping naked on a couch in an Orange County church that had been burglarized and vandalized.
At the time, authorities said, “When they asked him his name, he kept saying, ’Mayhem, Mayhem.’ They didn’t know who he was — they thought he was being uncooperative.”