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New York: Jewelry worth millions – pastor robbed during service

updatedJuly 26, 2022 at 12:07 p.m

New YorkJewelry worth millions – pastor robbed during service

A priest at a New York church has been ambushed by robbers in the middle of a service and stolen from jewelry worth more than a million dollars. Now he’s offering a finder’s fee.

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On Instagram, Pastor Miller-Whitehead likes to show himself in expensive clothes and with a lot of bling-bling around his neck.

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Exactly this jewelry was his undoing.

Exactly this jewelry was his undoing.

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Robbers attacked the pastor during a service and stole jewelry worth more than a million dollars.

Robbers attacked the pastor during a service and stole jewelry worth more than a million dollars.

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  • Lamor Miller-Whitehead is probably the richest minister in all of New York.

  • Now he was the victim of a robbery – during the service.

  • The bling bling pastor has over 1.5 million followers on Instagram.

The extremely wealthy pastor of a New York church is attacked by robbers in the middle of the service and is gone Schmuck worth more than one million dollars (approx. CHF 965,000). As Lamor Miller-Whitehead was delivering a sermon on having confidence in the face of difficult circumstances, three gunmen stormed his Brooklyn borough church, police said on Monday (local time). the robber had drawn weapons and asked the clergyman and his wife Asia K. DosReis-Whitehead to hand over their belongings.

Of the church service was streamed live on the internet. The church has since removed the video showing the robbery from its social media channels. It shows Miller-Whitehead suddenly lying on his stomach on the floor in front of his pulpit as the suspects enter the worship room. Shortly thereafter, a man with a black face mask appears in the picture, who approaches the pastor and then stuffs his jewelry into his pocket.

$50,000 reward for information leading to the crime

In an Instagram video, Miller-Whitehead later explained that the robbers also ripped off his band collar to get at his necklace. They also pointed a gun to his young daughter’s face while stealing his wife’s jewelry. The robbers fled in a white car. Nobody was hurt in the church. The pastor offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the suspects’ arrest.

Miller-Whitehead is for one extravagant lifestyle known, most recently he was often spotted in his Rolls-Royce in the Big Apple. The 44-year-old is considered a close friend of New York Mayor Eric Adams, who condemned the robbery of his church.

Pastor Miller-Whitehead served five years in prison

Miller-Whitehead founded his church, Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries, in 2013 after serving a five-year sentence on identity fraud and grand larceny charges. He claims that he was wrongly convicted at the time.

On Instagram, he defended the display of his wealth. He will “live his life the way God has arranged it for him,” the pastor said. “It’s not that I’m pretentious. It’s about buying what I want to buy.” He has the right to do that.

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