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"Police never made any arrest in the 2014 theft and it is unclear where the case left off," the Houston Chronicle reports. Houston Police at the time reported $200,000 in cash and $400,000 worth of checks had been taken in the theft.
#Plumber finds money in church wall cracked#
In March 2014, church officials reported thieves cracked a safe and made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now, all these years later, another bombshell has dropped. The money mystery comes after 600,000 in checks and cash disappeared from the church’s safe in. "Lakewood has no further comment at this time. Plumber finds cash, checks behind loose toilet in wall at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. Lakewood immediately notified the Houston Police Department and is assisting them with their investigation," the church said in the statement. The undisclosed amount of money found in the wall was inventoried and left in the custody of Lakewood Church since it was property found on its premises, police said. Recently, while repair work was being done at Lakewood Church, an undisclosed amount of cash and checks were found. The plumber who turned in hundreds of envelopes of cash and checks he found in a wall at televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church is getting 20,000 for his good deed. Lakewood Church officials reported the discovery to police after they were made aware of it, according to a statement published by KHOU 11 News.
Houston police said the money is in connection to a 2014 robbery at the church, where 200,000 in cash and 400,000 in. “We went to go remove the toilet, and I moved some insulation away and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall, and I was like ‘Oh wow!’” The plumber found the cash in a wall of the church in about 500 envelopes. “There was a loose toilet in the wall, and we removed the tile,” the caller reportedly said.
The host for the show, George Lindsey, said in an interview with KPRC News the items the plumber said he found in the walls were "just unbelievable." A plumber who discovered stacks of cash and checks inside a wall at celebrity televangelist Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church last month has been awarded 20,000 by Crime Stoppers. More information on the discovery was reportedly revealed on the radio talk show "The Morning Bullpen" on 100.3 The Bull when one of the plumbers called in. The news source cites releases from Lakewood Church and reporting from KPRC News.
#Plumber finds money in church wall full#
“There was a loose toilet in the wall and we removed the tile … Went to go remove the toilet and I moved some insulation away and about 500 envelopes fell out of the wall, and I was like, ‘Oh wow,’” the caller said.The Houston Chronicle reports about 3,000 envelopes, full of cash and checks, poured out of a wall when workers moved tile and insulation behind a loose toilet during a repair Nov. Newsweek reported on the plumber, who wished to remain.
News of the find became public on Thursday when a man who identified himself as the plumber called into Houston radio station 100.3 The Bull and shared the story with the Morning Bullpen show. The plumber who found cash and checks in a wall in Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas has demanded a reward for his efforts. Money recently discovered in a wall at Lakewood Church in Houston is believed to be tied to a 2014 burglary at the church in which hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and checks were stolen. “Lakewood immediately notified the Houston Police Department and is assisting them with their investigation.” “Recently, while repair work was being done at Lakewood Church, an undisclosed amount of cash and checks were found,” the statement said. A plumber doing repair work at pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church found hundreds of envelopes of cash and checks hidden in a wall that police think is connected to a massive 2014. Lakewood Church confirmed the discovery in a statement provided to CNN, but it did not provide additional information because the investigation is still active. Police said the investigation is ongoing. The money came from contributions given on March 8 and 9 of 2014.īurglary and theft officers inventoried and documented the recovered money and left it in the custody of the church, because it was property found on its premises, the statement said. A plumber went to Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston to remove a loose toilet but instead found envelopes stuffed with cash and checks inside the wall seven years after 600,000 was. Police said that evidence from the recovered checks suggests that the envelopes are connected to the March 9, 2014, theft of undisclosed amounts of money from the church.ĬNN reported at the time that about $600,000 – $200,000 in cash and $400,000 in checks – was taken from a church safe.
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