https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ns-adopted-son-court-drug-brass-knuckles.html
nov 3 2023 EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Mike Johnson's 'adopted' 40-year-old son Michael Tirrell James in court on charges of running illegal cannabis business and possession of brass knuckles - as it's revealed rap sheet goes back to 2003.
But now DailyMail.com can reveal how the top GOP lawmaker and his wife Kelly informally adopted James after meeting him while doing charitable community work in Louisiana in the 1990s.
James went on to have a string of conflicts with law enforcement, beginning just a few years after the Johnsons took him in, and continuing to this day.
His rap sheet extends back to 2003 and includes a long list of drug-related and other petty crimes, some of which landed him in jail, DailyMail.com can reveal.
From 2003 through 2010, James was convicted in Volusia County, Florida, of a series of petty crimes including possession of cocaine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, trespassing, retail theft, possession of a concealed weapon, driving without a license, and violating a restraining order preventing him seeing a 16-year-old girl he was 'dating' when he was 23.
Papers from Los Angeles Superior Court reveal James was charged in June last year with two counts of 'unlicensed commercial cannabis activity', and possession of 'metal knuckles or brass knuckles'.
When he started dating an underage girl he met over the internet in 2007, her father, Robert Guarnaccia, sought an injunction to keep the 'adult predator' away from his 16-year-old daughter.
'I told the defendant on April 12 to stop picking Kerry up from the school,' Guarnaccia stated in his petition.
'He told me that he will do what [the] f**k he wants to do and don't get in my way or you dead. She is my b***h.'
James continued to menace Guarnaccia, on one occasion demanding that he come outside his Ormond Beach, Florida home and threatening to beat his 'crippled ass,' it's alleged.
'I am a handicapped person who cannot fight a 27-year-old healthy man. Please help my family,' Guarnaccia pleaded with the court.
A permanent injunction was granted but James breached it multiple times throughout 2007 and 2008, court records reveal.
