Siegfried & Roy Fugitive Caught

Police say a former player for the Oakland Raiders football team wanted for an alleged drive-by shooting at the home of entertainers Siegfried & Roy has been taken into custody.

Cole Ford, 31, was captured without incident Tuesday afternoon at a Las Vegas copy store after a woman tipped off authorities that he was inside the business.

Ford, whose three-year NFL career ended in 1997, was named in a felony warrant stemming from the Sept. 21 shooting. Police identified him as the owner of a white minivan who shot at the compound owned by illusionists Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn.

No one was hurt, but police said shotgun pellets shattered windows and left a hole in a wall.

Ford faces six felony warrant charges of discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle and two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

During the time that Ford was a fugitive, police said they considered him armed and dangerous.

Initially, the case was labeled a hate crime after a witness told police the gunman shouted that the entertainers should get out of the country. Later police said it was not bias-related.

The long-running Siegfried & Roy show was forced to close a year ago after Horn suffered a near-fatal tiger mauling during a performance.

Police have not said if the two men were home at the time of the attack.