ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig sentenced a convicted felon on Wednesday to 47 months in prison after he lied about the accidental shooting of a toddler.
On March 6, 2025, Rodrick Miller and his girlfriend cleaned an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 semiautomatic pistol and left it unattended on a couch inside the girlfriend’s Wellston home. The girlfriend’s son was shot in the calf, and the couple rushed him to the hospital. Along the way, Miller hid the gun behind a tree in a wooded area. The pair then told North County Police Cooperative officers that the boy had been struck by a stray bullet during a gun battle between two vehicles while the girlfriend was walking home. Police later recovered the weapon.
Miller, 36, of Pine Lawn, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in March to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. His prior felony conviction bars him from possessing firearms.
The North County Police Cooperative, the St. Ann Police Department and the St. Louis County Police Department investigated the case, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Franks prosecuted it.
This case falls under Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, and protect communities from perpetrators of violent crime. The operation streamlines efforts and resources from the Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces and Project Safe Neighborhoods.
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