MIAMI – A member of the Miccosukee Tribe appeared in Miami federal court on Wednesday, his 33rd birthday, one day after FBI agents said he stabbed another man on the tribe’s reservation in far western Miami-Dade County.
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After committing the crime, they said the suspect’s mother slapped him and turned him in to tribal police.
Dillon Billie now faces three federal charges, including assault with intent to commit murder.
According to the FBI, the stabbing happened at around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday at the Miccosukee General Store at 36073 SW Eighth St.
A federal criminal complaint states that Billie had gotten into an argument with the victim, a fellow tribal member, and another man earlier that day while they were “performing lawn maintenance.”
Authorities said the victim and the other man went to a Doral restaurant and came back to the reservation that evening, stopping at the store. Billie was at the store at the time, they said.
The complaint states that surveillance video showed Billie, wearing jeans, a baseball cap and a button-up shirt with a Flanigan’s logo on the back, getting into a verbal dispute with the victim.
Authorities said the video then showed Billie hitting the man in the head.
According to the FBI, as the altercation continued, Billie was seen “gripping an apparently blue object in his left hand.”
The video, investigators said, showed Billie stabbing the victim with it in the abdomen “several times.”
Billie’s mother then came up and slapped him and took the knife, authorities said; he and his mom then left.
The other man is believed to have called Miccosukee police as he and the victim drove away from the store, with blood gushing from the latter’s abdomen, the complaint states. He then drove the victim to the Miccosukee Police Department.
At around the same time, Billie and his mother turned up at the police station and his mother announced that she was there to turn him in, authorities said.
“The woman directed officers to a blue knife — matching the description of the object observed in the Miccosukee General Store surveillance video — that was located in the storage compartment of the driver’s side door," the complaint states. “Officers seized the blue knife, which appeared to have blood on the blade.”
Agents also noted, “The scene of the crime and the area outside (the) Miccosukee Police Department both contained significant quantities of blood.”
Billie now faces the possibility of decades in prison after being taken into custody on federal charges of assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to do bodily harm and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
A federal magistrate judge ordered he be held ahead of a pre-trial detention hearing on Tuesday.
He’s scheduled to be arraigned in Miami federal court on July 10.
While Billie was initially held in a Broward Sheriff’s Office jail facility, Federal Bureau of Prisons records show that he was in custody at the Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami as of Thursday afternoon.