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A trail of bizarre behavior comes to an end on the part of former NFL place kicker Cole Murdoch Ford, who was arrested at a copy store near the Las Vegas Strip on November 2.

Police say a local woman called with a tip that Ford was sitting inside of the store after she was searching the local FOX station's website and had come across Cole Ford's picture under the "Las Vegas' Most Wanted" section. Cops say the employee recognized the man as a regular customer, then she spotted him sitting at one of the computers before dialing 911.

Ford's arrest came after local authorities identified him as the man behind a drive-by shooting at the home of entertainers Siegfried & Roy, although no one knows why he allegedly fired shots at the home.

According to the arresting officers, Ford was initially cooperative, but when they tried to arrest him he resisted. Police on hand were then forced to wrestle Ford to the ground in order to get him in handcuffs.

A shotgun was also recovered from Ford's car at the time of his arrest.

Ford, 31, whose NFL career ended when he was cut from the Raiders in 1998, was named in a felony warrant stemming from the Sept. 21 shooting at the entertainers’ home.

Police identified Ford 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.

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