Court Watching: Judge Cylenthia Miller accused of carrying loaded gun at airport

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cylenthia LaToye Miller of Flat Rock was scheduled for a July 1 arraignment/pretrial at 34th District Court on a charge of a check-point violation at Detroit Metro Airport at 10:01 a.m., June 8.
The arraignment/pretrial was adjourned until July 15 before Judge Lisa Martin.
Transportation Safety Agents reported she carried a loaded firearm through Detroit Metro Airport. They alerted airport police who levied the charge.
She has been a judge in Detroit since 2006 when she was appointed to the position. She spent 13 years on the bench at 36th District Court and the last five at Third Circuit Court where she now presides over juvenile court.
On June 8 while she was on her way to catching a flight, Miller passed through security at Metro Airport and the TSA found a gun in her purse on the x-ray scanner. It was a loaded .380 caliber Smith and Wesson firearm.
Miller’s defense attorney Todd Perkins, who said he was a personal friend, told channel 7 news that Miller is a licensed CPL holder and can lawfully possess, in a concealed fashion, a firearm in the state of Michigan.
But the law prohibits a person from carrying a loaded firearm in carry-on.
Channel 7 reported that sources told it that Miller told airport police that the gun had belonged to her brother, who lives in Ohio and Ohio does not require that firearms be registered.
But Michigan does and attorney Perkins said he didn’t know if the gun the judge was carrying was registered at the time it was discovered.
Perkins said the judge is facing the charge of carrying a dangerous weapon in an airport, a misdemeanor offense that carries up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine.