A South Carolina preacher named John-Paul Miller was arrested Wednesday night on charges of assault and battery. This comes months after his late wife Mica Miller’s suicide caused a lot of attention to him.
County records show that Miller, 45, was freed on a $776 bond on Thursday in Horry County on a charge of third-degree assault and battery.
He was arrested after a fight with protesters on Wednesday outside of his neighborhood church, Solid Rock at Common Market. Russell Long, his lawyer, could not be found right away, but his office told Fox News Digital that he has nothing to say about his wife’s case.
In November 1, the FBI told Fox News that they had a legal check of Miller’s home in Myrtle Beach that previous Friday. This brought Miller’s name back into the news. It’s not clear what exactly the police took from his house.
Mica Miller killed herself in April. The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office earlier confirmed that the 30-year-old woman killed herself with a gun in North Carolina’s Lumber River State Park. It was the day she died that she bought a gun.
The case got national news when court documents showed how tense the couple’s relationship was and when Mica’s sisters used social media to demand justice for her death.
TV station FOX 8 Greensboro says Mica asked for a divorce two days before she died.
Alicia Young, a friend of the Millers, told Fox News Digital that it took at least 25 FBI agents five hours to gather evidence at John-Paul’s house. As part of gathering proof, fingerprints were taken off of the doors.
Young said that John-Paul had left the house just two minutes before the FBI showed up, “and they found him and served him at Starbucks.”
“He was not allowed to go to his house while they were there, and he is in their custody for questioning,” she added.
John-Paul has not been charged with any crime connected to the death of his wife Mica, and the Robseon County Sheriff’s Office said that John-Paul had a good reason for not being at the scene of the crime the day Mica died.
The police found out from talking to people that John Paul Miller was at a sports event in Charleston on the day Mica Miller died. The sheriff’s office said in a press statement that John Miller’s car was seen driving on the Hwy 17 Bypass in Horry County at 2:22 p.m. on April 27, 2024. “The investigation confirmed that John Miller was accompanied while traveling to and from the event in Charleston, SC.”
FOX 8 reports that the website for Solid Rock Ministries has been taken down, and John-Paul is reportedly working on moving the church.
Source: South Carolina pastor arrested after confrontation with protesters over wife’s death
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