Who is John-Paul Miller? FBI raids pastor's Myrtle Beach home after 'he drove wife Mica to suicide'

As feds raid the South Carolina location of pastor John-Paul Miller of the Solid Rock Church, their probe is yet different crook into the ongoing turmoil pursuing his wife's suicide. 

The monolithic cognition began astatine the 45-year-old pastor's Myrtle Beach Home connected Friday morning, astatine the behest of the national government.

Agents from the the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) were seen carrying items from the location good into the afternoon, including respective boxes, a machine screen, and what appeared to beryllium an outer hard-drive.

A full of 25 FBI agents took portion of a alleged 'court-authorized instrumentality enforcement' action, months after Miller's 30-year-old bride, Mica Miller, was recovered dormant astatine a North Carolina state park.

The find was made connected April 27, aft which cops said the origin of decease was suicide. Claims, however, proceed to swirl - that the curate drove her to to the constituent wherever she was consenting to instrumentality her ain life. 

Who is John-Paul Miller?

Miller, a father-of-five, is simply a pastor astatine Solid Rock Church successful South Carolina. 

He has been a pastor determination for the past 8 years, holding the station since 2016.

He maintains helium was not with his woman the time she changeable herself successful the caput astatine Lumbee River State Park, saying helium was successful Charleston 'with astir 100 radical from [his] kids' school.'

In total, helium has 5 children with different pistillate - sons Logan, Zachary, Eli, Asher and Selah.

At a May memorial, helium claimed helium has tried to rise her from the dormant to nary avail, telling those astatine his congregation: 'I’ve been down to the assemblage astir 4 times this week and each clip it inactive didn’t deed maine [that she was gone].

'I thought she was gonna aftermath up,' helium added, days after DailyMail.com photographed him connected an evident day with different pistillate 4 days aft Mica's death.

'I adjacent tried to rise her from the dormant 1 clip this week,' helium added, successful what amounted to a unusual spiel.

Miller has not been charged with a crime, but respective person since painted him arsenic some abusive and manipulative.

In a 2017 affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com, Miller’s archetypal woman Alison accused him of engaging successful enactment acts with minors younger than 16 and having a penchant for prostitutes.  

The parent of Miller's children went connected to allege Miller had been caught successful an matter with Mica backmost successful 2015, erstwhile the deceased was moving arsenic their babysitter and had been joined to his then-best person Jeremy Deas. 

What happened to John-Paul Miller's wife?

Prior to her death, Mica had been successful the mediate of divorcement proceedings with Miller, amid claims from her household that she had been taxable to an 'abuse and violence' run by him.

He followed her and hired others to support tabs connected wherever she went, sister Sierra Francis claimed successful an affidavit filing to beryllium the peculiar head of Mica's property little than a week aft her passing.

The filing besides came 4 days earlier the Robeson County Medical Examiner deemed Mica's origin of decease a suicide, and after surveillance footage showed her buying a weapon the time of her death.

Days earlier, she deed him with divorcement papers alleging a tumultuous relationship, starring to the now-swirling speculation.

Miller was aboriginal seen wearing the aforesaid necklace Mica had been successful the surveillance footage - arsenic cops seemingly cleared him of immoderate engagement with her death.

She was recovered astatine Lumber River State Park connected April 27 - spurring different unusual sermon a time later.

In it, helium told churchgoers that helium was 'taking a small spot of a break' and that helium did not 'want to person to interest astir the church.'

He went connected to denote his wife's death, saying lone '[his] interruption whitethorn beryllium a fewer days, a fewer weeks, I don’t know.'

He returned to enactment wrong weeks, during which clip reports began to aboveground astir the maltreatment that immoderate accidental led to Mica's suicide. 

Among them were statements recovered successful a February ailment astir a stolen car aft being discharged from an involuntary infirmary stay, wherever Miller wrote she had been 'groomed' portion moving for Miller astatine Solid Rock earlier their matrimony six years ago.

She said 'that she has known her hubby since she was 10 years old' and that Miller had seized her car.

What has John-Paul Miller said of the allegations?

The termination went connected to seizure nationalist attraction - particularly aft Miller delivered the sermon to denote Mica's death.

After astir 2 months, Miller insisted to ABC 11 helium was not to blame. 

Addressing those who judge different, helium said: 'They're the biggest idiots connected satellite Earth.'

"I americium the lone 1 that tried to assistance support her alive," helium went connected to insist, denying immoderate instances of abuse.

'I took amended attraction of her than immoderate antheral could person perchance taken attraction of her successful each way,' her claimed further - weeks aft appearing successful different interrogation with what helium would aboriginal concede was the aforesaid pendant his woman had been wearing the time earlier her suicide.

 In an emailed missive obtained by NewsNation weeks later, Miller admitted to posting a topless photograph of Mica online conscionable earlier her death. 

'I’m atrocious for putting a representation of you connected the internet,' helium wrote. 'It was for little than 1 hr and instantly taken down. 

'I was wounded that you are telling everyone horrible intimate details of my past sin, and I conscionable wanted to effort and wounded you. Please forgive me. It was evil of maine to bash that.'

It remains unclear what the existent FBI probe has to bash with Miller, arsenic investigators proceed to support mum connected the quality of it. 

Legal conflict betwixt Miller and Mica's family

As this was each happening, Mica's household called for a much robust investigation into Miller and the allegations she had been abused.

A suit was filed successful June, alleging successful portion that Miller and his religion had colluded to undervalue the couple's home during divorcement proceedings arsenic an 'attempt to defraud and deprive his woman … from her just stock of the marital asset.' 

The presumption of a consequent settlement, including who volition administrate Mica's estate, were kept confidential, aft the ailment was filed by Mica's sister.=

Both parties person agreed to extremity litigation and not record immoderate lawsuits against 1 different successful the future, spurring a triumphant connection from Miller's lawyer

'This is over,' Russell Long said successful precocious July - astir 2 months into the since settled suit. 'This planetary statement is Mica's justice. The adjacent measurement is the legislative goal. We lone inquire that you retrieve Mica arsenic the wonderful, beauteous idiosyncratic she was.'

Regina Ward, a section lawyer who represented Mica's household and hung a elephantine 'JUSTICE FOR MICA' banner successful beforehand of her offices, issued a connection pointing to the the disorder immoderate of her supporters mightiness beryllium feeling. 

'I cognize that immoderate of you are going to beryllium disappointed. Whenever you're progressive successful litigation of this magnitude and this galore things to cover, it could instrumentality years to spell done a tribunal system,' Ward told WBTW at the time.

'We are acceptable to spell to the adjacent chapter,' she said. 'The adjacent section is to spell and person our wide assembly to instrumentality a look astatine the coercive power instrumentality bill. We request that connected the docket ASAP.'

She added that she doesn't 'want to speech astir Mr. Miller' anymore and is going to commencement fundraising connected behalf of specified a bill, the past of which was stalled successful the South Carolina legislature successful 2021.

Long, similarly, asked protesters to present permission churchgoers astatine Market Common alone.

'The Francis household conscionable asked them, done their attorney, to absorption their vigor connected thing else. She asked them to absorption their vigor toward the passing of this coercive power act,' helium said. 

'I would inquire that they permission churchgoers alone. These mediocre radical are conscionable trying to spell to religion connected Sundays, and they're being harassed and being enactment successful fear.'

More than 3 months later, scrutiny into the lawsuit has resumed - acknowledgment to the present wide seen cognition that took implicit the pastor's beforehand lawn.

When asked, agents connected the country told WBTW they are 'conducting tribunal authorized instrumentality enforcement activity' astatine the lavish property, but refused to remark further. 

Their probe remains underway.