John Miller

Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst

John J. Miller is the Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst for CNN.
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As part of an ongoing overdose fatality investigation in a Bronx daycare center on 9/15/23, a search warrant was conducted by @NYPDDetectives. A large quantity of Fentanyl, other narcotics, & drug paraphernalia was recovered in a trap floor in the play area at the daycare center.
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See where authorities found stashed fentanyl at day care
Sep 22, 2023
CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller explains why he believes the Bronx day care where authorities found 8-10 kilos of fentanyl acted more as a drug front.
Suspect Grei Mendez is the owner and operator of the day care, according to court documents.
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Suspects in Bronx day care overdose cases that left 1 child dead and 3 others sickened are believed to be drug distributors, federal source says
Sep 20, 2023
The suspects charged with murder at a Bronx day care center after several children were exposed to opioids are believed to be mid-level drug distributors, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.
A November 19, 2020 photo shows Trump campaign advisor Boris Epshteyn during a press conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC. - Boris Epshteyn, Advisor for President Donald Trumps 2020 presidential campaign has tested positive coronavirus, he announced in a tweet on November 25, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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This longtime Trump adviser is raising eyebrows
Aug 24, 2023
CNN has identified one of 30 “unindicted co-conspirators” involved in former President Donald Trump’s Georgia indictment case as Boris Epshteyn. CNN’s John Miller reports on who he is and why he has yet to be indicted.
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Dick’s Sporting Goods blames ‘increasingly serious’ theft problem for profit plunge
Aug 22, 2023
Dick’s Sporting Goods warned Tuesday that retail theft is damaging its business and would lead to lower annual profits.
Authorities work outside as they search the home of suspect Rex Heuermann, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in New York. Police carted more boxes of potential evidence Tuesday out of the Long Island home of Heuermann, who has been charged with killing at least three women and leaving their remains alongside a beach highway. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Investigators in Gilgo Beach case operating on theory that the killings occurred in suspect’s home
Jul 21, 2023
Since the spring of this year, investigators looking into the Gilgo Beach serial killings case have been operating on the theory that the suspect, Rex Heuermann, committed the killings in his Massapequa Park, New York, home.
New York State police officers stand guard as law enforcement searches the home of Rex Heuermann, Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Massapequa Park, N.Y. Heuermann, a Long Island architect, was charged Friday, July 14, with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)
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‘They were disgusted. They were embarrassed’: Police commissioner tells CNN about Gilgo Beach suspect’s family
Jul 18, 2023
Family members of the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect were shocked, disgusted and embarrassed when they learned about the crimes he is accused of committing, police say.
Crime laboratory officers removes boxes as law enforcement searches the home of Rex Heuermann, Saturday, July 15, 2023, in Massapequa Park, N.Y. Heuermann, a Long Island architect, was charged Friday, July 14, with murder in the deaths of three of the 11 victims in a long-unsolved string of killings known as the Gilgo Beach murders. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)
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A flood of evidence has come in since suspect’s arrest in Gilgo Beach serial killings cold case, DA says
Jul 18, 2023
Investigators have received a flood of evidence and information related to the suspect charged in some of the Gilgo Beach killings since his arrest Thursday, the Suffolk County District Attorney told CNN on Monday.
Law enforcement arrive to a house Friday, July 14, 2023, as sources said a suspect has been taken into custody in connection with a long-unsolved string of killings on New York's Long Island.
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Burner phones. Pizza crust. DNA on burlap. A New York architect was charged with killing 3 women in Gilgo Beach serial killings cold case
Jul 17, 2023
New York architect Rex Heuermann was charged by a grand jury Friday with six counts of murder in connection with the deaths of three of four women who in death became known as the “Gilgo Four,” according to the Suffolk County District Attorney.
Police officers work at the scene as investigations are ongoing the day after a mass shooting in the Kingsessing section of southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 4, 2023. REUTERS/Bastiaan Slabbers
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Philadelphia mass shooting suspect told police he did it to clean up the neighborhood, sources say
Jul 05, 2023
The man accused of fatally shooting five people in Philadelphia on Monday night told police in sum and substance that he carried out the attack to clean up the neighborhood, two law enforcement sources told CNN.
FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Law enforcement officials say, Taylor Taranto, a man wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been arrested in the Washington neighborhood where former President Barack Obama lives. Taranto was seen a few blocks from the former president's home, and he fled even though he was chased by U.S. Secret Service agents. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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Man wanted on January 6-related charges arrested in Obama’s DC neighborhood with guns and materials to make explosives
Jun 30, 2023
A man with numerous firearms and materials to make an explosive was arrested Thursday in former President Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, neighborhood after claiming on an internet livestream that he had a detonator, law enforcement officials told CNN.
Former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny is taken from a New York City Police precinct under arrest for the death of Jordan Neely, a man whose death has been ruled a homicide by the city's medical examiner after being placed in a chokehold on a subway train, in New York City, U.S., May 12, 2023. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado
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Grand jury indicts Marine veteran who held homeless man in fatal chokehold on NYC subway
Jun 15, 2023
A Manhattan grand jury has indicted Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who held the homeless Black man and street artist Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway, a Manhattan District Attorney’s spokesperson told CNN.
Weapons recovered by Fairfax County Police after an alleged trespasser was arrested at Dolley Madison Preschool in McLean, Virginia.
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Armed man arrested near CIA headquarters at a Virginia preschool will stay in jail, judge decides
May 25, 2023
The Florida man who allegedly told officers at CIA Headquarters he had a gun and was later arrested with an AK-47 on nearby preschool property will stay in jail, a Virginia judge decided Thursday.
Weapons recovered by Fairfax County Police after an alleged trespasser was arrested at Dolley Madison Preschool in McLean, Virginia.
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A man went to CIA Headquarters and said, ‘I’m here and I have a gun,’ source says. He was later arrested at a preschool with an AK-47 in his car
May 24, 2023
The suspect trespassed at a preschool and asked use the restroom before he was arrested less than 1.5 miles away from CIA Headquarters, the school said. Police said he had an AK-47 and another weapon in his car.
Garrett Warren, 13, and Alfa Barrie, 11.
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2 boys found dead in separate Manhattan rivers may have been playing at water’s edge, source says
May 22, 2023
Two boys who were reported missing last week and found dead in two different rivers in Manhattan may have been last seen playing together at the water’s edge, according to one law enforcement source.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 16: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex attend the Ms. Foundation Women of Vision Awards: Celebrating Generations of Progress & Power at Ziegfeld Ballroom on May 16, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Ms. Foundation for Women)
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Prince Harry and Meghan allege ‘near catastrophic’ paparazzi car chase in NY
May 18, 2023
Prince Harry and Meghan were involved in “near catastrophic car chase” involving a paparazzi in New York on Tuesday night, his spokesperson says.
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The Secret Service is investigating how an intruder managed to enter the home of President Biden’s national security adviser
May 16, 2023
CNN’s Evan Perez and John Miller discuss.

About

John J. Miller is the Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst for CNN. Miller joined the network in 2022 and will is based in the network’s New York bureau. He is a veteran award-winning journalist and experienced law enforcement and intelligence executive.

Prior to joining CNN, Miller served as Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In that role, Commissioner Miller oversaw the Intelligence Bureau, the Counterterrorism Bureau, and the NYPD’s partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Commissioner Miller is the former Deputy Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Analysis overseeing programs to improve analysis across the US government’s 16 intelligence agencies as well as the team that produced the President’s Daily Intelligence Briefing (PDB). Before that, he was an Assistant Director of the FBI, where he oversaw public affairs, community outreach and served as the bureau’s national spokesman.

Along with his law enforcement career, Miller has worked in journalism as a senior correspondent for WNBC-TV in New York, ABC News as a correspondent and anchor, CBS News reporting for CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, and 60 Minutes. Miller is best known for conducting a May 1998 interview with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.

He is a winner of the DuPont Silver Baton (“DuPont Award), two Peabody Awards and eleven Emmys. Miller was named the 2019 recipient of the prestigious FBI-NEIA Penrith Award for excellence in law enforcement leadership. 

Miller is also the co-author of the New York Times bestseller “The Cell: Inside the 9/11 plot” (Hyperion, 2002).

He is a member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Miller has been an instructor at the FBI’s National Executive Institute, as well as the Leadership in Counterterrorism (LinCT) course, and has received specialized training in management and organizational change from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Columbia University.