Ex-Colts DL Daniel Muir arrested after missing son found safe

Former Indianapolis Colts defensive lineman Daniel Muir was arrested Wednesday alongside together with his spouse, Kristen Muir, after their 14-year-old son, who had been reported lacking two weeks earlier, was discovered at their house in Logansport, Indiana.

The arrests have been made after Indiana State Police executed a search warrant on the house. Daniel Muir faces costs of home battery, a Class A misdemeanor, and obstruction of justice, a felony. Kristen Muir faces a cost of obstruction of justice.

Bryson Muir is “secure and effectively” and is now within the custody of Cass County Division of Youngster Providers, Indiana State Police Sgt. Steven Glass stated.

In line with the Garfield Heights, Ohio, police name abstract, Bryson’s grandmother, Cheryl Wright, known as police on June 16 to report that “her grandson was being abused.” Wright informed Indianapolis station FOX59/CBS4 this week that she took an image of her grandson’s accidents.

“His face was battered,” she stated. “After I acquired him, he had a black eye and busted lip. His complete face was swollen. I can solely think about what number of instances he had been hit within the face for it to be like that.”

Wright stated that Bryson informed her that his father was liable for the accidents. In line with the decision abstract, Wright stated she had picked up Bryson earlier and introduced him to her house as a result of he was being abused. She known as police when Bryson’s mom, Kristen, arrived at her home and left with Bryson. Instantly after Wright known as within the report at 7:53 a.m., police discovered Kristen and stopped her in her car. However based on the decision abstract, Bryson was not contained in the automobile.

Indiana investigators struggled to contact Daniel, 40, and Kristen, 38. FOX59 reported that on Friday, Daniel and Kristen agreed to fulfill with Indiana State Police and to convey Bryson, who had not been seen since leaving his grandmother’s house in Ohio. However an hour earlier than the scheduled assembly, they backed out, which led police to challenge a statewide Silver Alert, stating that Bryson might be in “excessive hazard and will require medical help.”

Glass informed reporters that officers discovered Bryson and his mother and father instantly after executing the 6 a.m. search warrant on Wednesday. Glass stated the operation was “peaceable.”

FOX59 reported that the operation included three SWAT groups, detectives, Okay-9 models and a bomb squad and that they have been ready to look a number of buildings on the property.

“With something of this nature, we’ve got to be effectively ready, to enter the unknown,” Glass informed reporters. “In the end, all the things went effectively and all people is secure, together with Bryson.”

The property at 1740 W. U.S. Freeway 24 is called “Straitway Goshen” as a result of it’s one among round a dozen satellites of the acute non secular motion Straitway Fact Ministry, a Hebrew Israelite group led by Charles Dowell out of Lafayette, Tennessee. Straitway Fact Ministry encourages members to dwell collectively in remoted communities.

In March 2020, Daniel Muir purchased the 59 acres of Logansport land and a home on the property for $450,000. The property is now below the possession of “Servant Leaders Basis,” and he goes by the title “Pastor.” He’s listed on Straitway’s web site because the contact and chief of Straitway’s Indiana location. There are a number of buildings on the Logansport land, and Muir recurrently posts YouTube updates about building of latest buildings on the property.

In a 2020 interview with Sports activities Illustrated, Muir stated his spouse and kids lived with him on the property however wouldn’t say whether or not different households who attend providers at Straitway Goshen additionally dwell there, together with their most notable member, five-time Professional Bowler and Colts Ring of Honor inductee Robert Mathis. Mathis confirmed his involvement in Straitway in an interview with Sports activities Illustrated in 2020, and his private Fb account reveals a number of images of him with Muir and the Indiana group households.

Indiana State Police stated that different individuals on the property have been detained and questioned on Wednesday however didn’t specify them by title. Daniel and Kristen Muir have been the one two arrested.

Daniel Muir performed defensive sort out for Indianapolis from 2008 to 2011.