Authorities say an “elderly man” found at a Massachusetts home actually was a 31-year-old fugitive wearing a disguise.
Police went to a house on Cape Cod Thursday looking for Shaun Miller, who’d been a fugitive since April when he and several others were indicted on heroin distribution charges. Police say when they ordered a man there to come outside, an elderly man emerged.
The U.S. Attorney’s office says when officers realized the man was Miller they pulled off his “realistic disguise” and placed him under arrest. Nearly $30,000 in cash and two loaded guns were found in the house.
Miller, of Hyannis, is being held pending a detention hearing on Aug. 31 in federal court. It wasn’t immediately known if he’s represented by a lawyer.
(ATF)
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Why is it that when it is reported that a criminal had “guns in the house” they fail to say if the guns were obtained legally. Guns, and possessing them, is not illegal unless they are illegal guns, they were obtained illegally, or the one possessing them was doing so illegally. I am sick of the media, ALL Media, making the discovery of any gun sound like it is a crime to possess one, and ignoring whether it is legal or illegal. There are hundreds of thousands of legal gun owners, and those who are licensed to carry one have been background checked, trained, and shown in a recent study to be even more law abiding than law enforcement. Most guns possessed by criminals were stolen, or purchased on the Black Market. So whether a gun was obtained legally by a person with a legal right to possess it is an important factor and should be pointed out in news articles where guns were involved.