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A Brooklyn
preacher
well known for his ostentatious style and flashy jewelry was robbed Sunday while delivering his weekly sermon, with the thieves stripping him and his wife
of $1 million worth of jewelry,
police
have said .
from New York.
Pastor
Lamor Miller-Whitehead,
who calls himself "bishop", was in the middle of the sermon before a score of parishioners when three men entered the temple and, after threatening him with firearms, took several rings and chains that he was wearing , before doing the same with his wife.
The pastor himself told it in a video he posted on
Instagram:
"When I saw them arrive at the sanctuary with their guns, I told everyone to get down, everyone to the ground. I didn't know if they wanted to shoot the church or if they came just to steal," he said.
After the robbery happened, Whitehead spoke today with the
WBCS network,
and said: "They knew (what they were doing), they watched me and
they knew that I had other jewelry," he
said, explaining how the thieves searched thoroughly under his clothes.
After the robbery, the thieves fled on foot and got into a
Mercedes Benz
that was waiting for them.
The pastor,
a personal friend of Mayor Eric Adams,
used the Instagram video to defend himself against comments explaining the robbery because of his
penchant for luxury.
"It's not about being flashy, it's about buying what I want to buy. It's my right to buy what I want. I've worked hard for it (so) I can buy what I want," he said.
The controversial pastor previously served five years in prison for identity theft and theft, before founding his
Church of Tomorrow's Leaders
in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
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