MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — A crowd of protestors converged outside of Solid Rock Church in Market Common on Sunday, days after the FBI seized boxes of evidence from the home of its embattled pastor.
It wasn’t immediately known whether John-Paul Miller was at the pulpit. Police were on hand amid barricades set up around the property’s perimeter. White “Solid Rock” lettering against the church’s distinctive orange sign had been removed.
Controversy has swirled around Miller and his Market Common church since his wife, Mica, was found dead in late April at the Lumber River State Park in Robeson County. Her death was eventually ruled a suicide, but the case sparked nationwide interest because of allegations that she was abused by her husband before her death.
Federal authorities spent most of Friday conducting an investigation at the Miller’s Coldwater Circle home in the Azaela Lakes community home, leaving just before 5 p.m. Officials were seen carrying items out of the house including boxes, a computer screen, and what looked like an external computer drive.