Delivery may have been the better option for a Letcher County fugitive arrested over the weekend.
According to a Facebook post by the Letcher County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Mickey Stines arrested a man at Little Caesar’s Pizza in Whitesburg on Saturday while picking up pizza for an archery tournament at Martha Jane Potter Elementary School and Fleming-Neon Middle School. According to the post, the man, identified in court documents as 27-year-old Roger Miles, Jr., of Thornton, was also picking up pizza and was contacted by Stines when the sheriff noticed him and knew he had outstanding warrants.
According to court documents, one of those warrants was for one of Stines’ cases.
According to court documents, Stines saw Miles, with whom he was familiar, enter Little Caeser’s before making contact with him.
“I knew it was Roger Miles, Jr., because I had him on house arrest and one of the warrants was my case,” Stines wrote in an arrest citation.
Stines wrote that he went into the store behind miles and grabbed his arm from behind and restrained him. Stines wrote that Miles attempted to break free and get away and began trying to push against the sheriff, who then pushed Miles into a corner of the store’s lobby.
“(Miles) would fight and say ‘Mickey you can’t do this (you’re) not in a uniform,’” Stines wrote in the citation.
Whitesburg Police Officer Jordan Clemons arrived at the scene and assisted Stines and the two took Miles into custody.
Stines wrote that Miles’ vehicle was still running and when the sheriff opened the door to the vehicle to turn it off, he noticed a loaded shotgun next to the driver’s seat. Stines noted in court documents that Miles is a convicted felon. A further search of the vehicle, court documents said, yielded the discovery of a “powder substance that appears to be meth” and a backpack with a handgun inside of it.
The officers also found a pair of bolt cutters that belong to the Wise Fire Department in Virginia, court documents said, as well as a legend drug.
Miles was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, convicted felon in possession of a firearm, convicted felon in possession of a handgun, menacing, first-degree possession of a controlled substance, possession of burglary tools and possession of a legend drug. He was lodged in the Letcher County Jail.
Stines wrote in court documents that he called for assistance from the Whitesburg Police Department but was unable to wait because Miles was paying for his pizza.
“… I had to act because I was afraid (Miles) had a weapon on him because he had talked about having 40 guns or more,” Stines wrote in the arrest citation.
In the Facebook post about the incident, the Letcher County Sheriff’s Office thanked Whitesburg Officer Jordan Clemons for his assistance in arresting Miles.
