Father and two sons disarm felon accused of threatening customers at Eastern Washington bar

By The Tri-City Herald (TNS)
Posted 1/13/25

A felon is accused of brandishing a gun and threatening customers inside a Richland bar in the Uptown Shopping Center area early Sunday morning, according to Richland police.

A woman ran from …

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Father and two sons disarm felon accused of threatening customers at Eastern Washington bar

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A felon is accused of brandishing a gun and threatening customers inside a Richland bar in the Uptown Shopping Center area early Sunday morning, according to Richland police.

A woman ran from the bar, and her father and his two adult sons, who were outside, went back into the bar to confront him, according to a police report.

The felon is accused of pointing the gun at them before he left, according to police.

The father and his sons followed him into an alley, where they took away the weapon and held him until police arrived.

Richland police say the suspect had a fanny pack with methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, drug paraphernalia and cash.

Police already were in the area after increasing their patrols near bars in the Uptown after recent fights and a previous fatal shooting in the area, according to police reports.

Michael Perkins, who was experiencing homelessness, died Nov. 16 when he was shot and killed in a breezeway at the Uptown.



In the Sunday morning incident, Richland police booked a suspect into the Benton County jail but did not release his name.

However, jail records show that Jon Devin Miller Jr., 38, was booked into the Benton County jail about 5 a.m. Sunday on multiple counts of second-degree assault, unlawful possession of a firearm and delivery of a controlled substance.

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