Ex-NFL player and wife arrested after abused missing son found

Former NFL defensive tackle Daniel Muir and his wife Kristen have been arrested after their 14-year-old allegedly abused son has been safely located.

The Indiana State Police SWAT team executed search and arrest warrants Wednesday around 6 a.m. and found the three family members at their Logansport home.

Police said Bryson Muir, who was the subject of a Silver Alert issued June 28 after his grandmother said he had been physically abused by his parents, appeared “safe and well.”

Daniel and Kristen Muir were taken into custody without incident. Bryson was released to the Cass County Department of Child Services.

Daniel Muir, 40, was charged with one count of obstruction of justice and one count of domestic battery. Kristen Muir, 38, was also charged with obstruction of justice.

On June 28, police said the Muir parents agreed to bring Bryson to the station at noon, but backed out at 11 a.m., signaling an unwillingness to cooperate. That’s when Bryson’s Silver Alert was issued. Police provided the public with two photos of the teen, one of which showed him with a black eye. Bryson’s grandmother, Cheryl Wright, told police that he could have been being abused by his parents.

Bryson was last seen on June 26 outside Wright’s home near Cleveland, Ohio. He got into Kristen Muir’s white 2015 Chevrolet Suburban, which was quickly pulled over by police without Bryson in it.

“The officers believe that he had probably been switched into another car,” Wright told Fox 59 on Monday.

Who is Daniel Muir?

Daniel Muir is a pastor at Staitway Truth Ministries, Tennessee-based religious group that some online have labeled a cult. The organization reportedly owns the Muir’s home and white Suburban. Wright told the outlet that Bryson is “brainwashed” into living on the religious compound.

“Bryson is so conditioned or brainwashed to their way of living that he wanted to go back,” Wright told the outlet. “As I tried to get my daughter to leave he ran out of the house and left with them.”

“His face was battered. When I got him he had a black eye and busted lip,” Wright continued. “His whole face was swollen. I can only imagine how many times he had been hit in the face for it to be like that.”

Newsweek has reached out to Wright and has not heard back.

Daniel Muir spent seven seasons in the NFL with four different teams, signing with the Green Bay Packers as a Defensive Tackle in 2007.

He spent 2008 to 2011 with the Colts, 2012 with the New York Jets, and ended his career with the Oakland Raiders in 2013.

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