FBI hostage rescue team frees woman after 25-hour standoff at North Texas house
An FBI hostage rescue team early Wednesday entered a Denton County house and saved a woman who had been held there for 25 hours by a man with whom she had been in a relationship, police said.
The man called 911 late Monday and said that he was holding a woman and her daughter hostage and had weapons at the house in Providence Village. The man said he would shoot the hostages if officers approached, according to Aubrey police.
After the end of the standoff in the 12100 block of Thoroughbred Drive, the remaining hostage, identified by police as a 49-year-old woman, was taken to a medical facility for evaluation. Police did not publicly describe the nature of the woman’s injuries.
About two hours into the standoff, a girl was released and left the house. The girl told police that the suspect was Michael David Miller and that he was holding her mother hostage while armed with multiple guns and an incendiary device described as a flamethrower. After receiving that information, officers began evacuating nearby residents as a precaution.
Special agents took Miller, 57, into custody when they rescued the hostage. He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, unlawful restraint, aggravated kidnapping, violation of a bond/protective order, and burglary of a habitation.
Officers found a broken window on a side of the house.
During the standoff, the suspect would not answer follow-up calls from police. Multiple law enforcement attempts to reestablish contact with Miller were unsuccessful as he refused to negotiate and indicated he wanted to provoke a “suicide by cop” scenario, police said.
Aubrey police previously arrested Miller on March 18 after he was accused of assaulting the same woman at the home on Thoroughbred Drive. He was released April 11 on $50,000 bond with a protective order to stay away from the woman, her daughter and their home.
Miller was being held Wednesday at the Denton County jail with no bond set on two counts and a total of $4.5 million bond on the remaining counts, police said.
This story was originally published April 22, 2026 at 1:32 PM.
