Former Indianapolis Colts defensive sort out Daniel Muir and his spouse have been arrested after their lacking 14-year-old son was discovered secure Wednesday — two weeks after cops began probing abuse allegations.
Bryson Muir was situated “secure and nicely” when Indiana State Police SWAT groups raided the Muir household house in Logansport, north of Indianapolis, at about 6 a.m., cops mentioned.
His mother and father, Daniel and Kristin Muir, had been each taken into custody on obstruction of justice prices.
The teenager’s father, a one-time defensive lineman, can also be going through a home battery cost, police mentioned.
Bryson, who stands 6-foot-2 and weighs roughly 185 kilos, hadn’t been seen since June 16 after his grandmother, Cheryl Wright, alerted cops that the teenager had allegedly been abused by his dad.
The grandmother tipped police off after noticing the teenager had a swollen black eye.
The boy was final seen along with his mother as she drove him away from the grandmother’s house in Cleveland, Ohio, that day.
“His face was battered. After I received him he had a black eye and busted lip,” Wright instructed FOX 59.
“His entire 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.”
Native cops tracked down Kristin Muir’s automobile quickly after receiving the report, however the teen was nowhere to be discovered.
Investigators had been engaged on the speculation that Bryson had been switched into one other automobile.
Regardless of visiting the Muir household house a number of instances over the next days, cops mentioned they had been unable to make contact with Bryson’s mother and father.
Authorities issued a “Silver Alert” final Friday after the Muirs instructed cops they’d carry Bryson to Indianapolis State Police headquarters to fulfill with detectives and show he was OK — however backed out of the association simply an hour earlier than.
The raid was carried out after the Muirs failed to indicate up at court docket on Tuesday after warrants had been issued for them.
The household lives on land owned by the Straitway Reality Ministries, a non secular sect primarily based in Tennessee that some have described as a cult.
Bryson’s grandmother has since alleged the teenager could have been “brainwashed” by his mother and father.
“Bryson is so conditioned or brainwashed to their way of life that he needed to return,” Wright mentioned.
The Straitway Reality Ministries web site claims the group is a “nation of Hebrew Israelites who’re commandment keepers; obedient to Yah and our savior, Jesus the Christ. We’re blessed with a vibrant deliverance ministry and life-changing fact from a real Jeremiah 3:15 Pastor.”
