JP Miller facing assault charge after he 'struck' woman protesting Solid Rock church
Warning: This article contains discussion of domestic abuse and suicide which some readers may find distressing
JP Miller’s arrest for cyberstalking and making false statements by the FBI are well known by those who’ve watched the true crime doc about his wife Mica’s death, but what is less known is that he was arrested for assault in late 2024.
Mica’s death is the focus of Netflix’s Death of the Pastor’s Wife, a brand-new true crime doc which covers her allegations that JP abused and stalked her in the lead up to her death by suicide. JP denies these allegations and pled not guilty to his cyberstalking charges.
Netflix’s doc is popular but can’t cover the entire story, leaving out JP’s criminal past and an interview in which he was directly asked if he ever abused Mica.
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This should not come as a surprise however considering how much has happened and the fact the doc focused heavily on Mica, telling the story of her life and alleged abuse through her family and friends.
Another aspect not included however is that JP was arrested for allegedly assaulting a protestor outside his church in November 2024, six months after Mica’s death.
The alleged assault happened when the victim was protesting Solid Rock
JP’s Solid Rock church was the site of numerous protests in 2024 after footage of his sermon the day after Mica’s death went viral.
This led to many discovering the allegations of abuse against him and starting a #JusticeForMica campaign. This online campaign became a real world one as protestors with placards began picketing the Solid Rock church.
This was eventually successful as JP was forced to shut down the church and sell the building. Though he eventually set up another church, Mercy Church, in the same county of Myrtle Beach, this is to a smaller congregation and protests continue outside.
He was arrested for allegedly ‘striking’ or ‘tapping’ the cap of a protestor with his phone who had appeared at the Horry-Georgetown Technical college campus. Protestors had got wind that Solid Rock was set to change locations and per WMBF News, movers were apparently there working according to JP’s attorney, Russell Long.
JP was released on bail and sued the protestor along with three others for a litany of charges
Per the arrest warrant, a protestor Sandra Caron yelled at JP, leading him to get in her face, recording her with his phone, and ‘strike’ or ‘tap’ the brim of her baseball cap.
His attorney said the Caron had been ‘baiting’ JP and that he was ‘confident that one day this case will go to trial and John-Paul will be found not guilty’.
Caron was one of three ‘Justice for Mica’ protestors who JP sued in January of 2025 along with Melissa Pfeiffer and Alexandra Cuozzo.
The trio were served similar lawsuits alleging harassment, defamation, stalking, and invasion of privacy, alleging that their campaign had damaged his and Solid Rock’s reputation.
Caron, Pfeiffer, and Cuozzo fired back with their own countersuits, with Pfeiffer alleging ‘assault and battery’ from an incident where JP turned on sprinklers outside his church, along with accusations of abuse of process and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
All parties mutually agreed to drop their lawsuits with no settlement.
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Topics: True Crime, Netflix, Domestic Abuse, TV and Film, Documentaries
Michael Slavin