Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Early this morning, Kimon Marcus Miller, 35, was taken into custody for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon after deputies probing an armed disturbance discovered a pistol adjacent to his vehicle.

Around 2:40 a.m. on June 29, officers from the Gainesville Police Department were dispatched to investigate an armed disturbance on the 300 block of SE 2nd Avenue. According to reports, the suspect, described as a black male, was in a red Chevy Impala displaying a Miami Heat license plate; officers found Miller in a vehicle that corresponded with this description.

As officers approached, they noticed Miller making suspicious movements, specifically leaning toward the passenger side of the car and then hearing “an audible thud”; the windows on both the driver and passenger sides were rolled down. Officers stated they issued numerous commands for Miller to show his hands, but he allegedly reached toward the car’s floor instead. When ordered to exit the vehicle, he did so but supposedly ignored commands to raise his hands and began walking away from officers prior to being detained.

Officers reportedly found a loaded black handgun on the ground outside the passenger side window of Miller’s vehicle and reported that Miller’s vehicle was the only vehicle near the firearm and Miller was the only occupant of that vehicle.

Post Miranda, Miller reportedly said he had not possessed the gun and that he’d had a passenger in his vehicle that he did not know and could not or would not describe. He reportedly said the unknown passenger tried to sell him the gun, pointed it at a woman, and left the gun near his car. He reportedly later admitted to possessing the gun and said his fingerprints and DNA would be found on it because he had handled it earlier in the night. He reportedly denied throwing the gun out of the vehicle and continued to insist that his passenger had left it there.

Miller is on probation for multiple felonies out of Georgia, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; although his address is listed in Hawthorne on his arrest report, the Department of Corrections lists an address in Orlando as his verified permanent address.

Miller has been charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and resisting an officer without violence. Judge Jonathan Ramsey set bail at $52,500.

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